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Thirukkural 287

Chapter 29: கள்ளாமை (The Absence of Fraud) · Virtue

Kural 287

களவென்னும் காரறி வாண்மை அளவென்னும்
ஆற்றல் புரிந்தார்கண்ட இல்.

Kalavennum Kaarari Vaanmai Alavennum
Aatral Purindhaarkanta Il

Practice of fraud's dark cunning arts they shun, Who long for power by 'measured wisdom' won

Meaning

That black-knowledge which is called fraud, is not in those who desire that greatness which is called rectitude.

Plain English meaning from the 19th-century prose translation by W. H. Drew and John Lazarus. The verse above is G. U. Pope's translation (1886).

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