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Thirukkural 289

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

Kural 289

அளவல்ல செய்தாங்கே வீவர் களவல்ல
மற்றைய தேற்றா தவர்.

Alavalla Seydhaange Veevar Kalavalla
Matraiya Thetraa Thavar

Who have no lore save that which fraudful arts supply, Acts of unmeasured vice committing straightway die

Meaning

Those, who are acquainted with nothing but fraud, will perish in the very commission of transgression.

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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