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Thirukkural 290

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

Kural 290

கள்வார்க்குத் தள்ளும் உயிர்நிலை கள்வார்க்குத்
தள்ளாது புத்தே ளுளகு.

Kalvaarkkuth Thallum Uyirnilai Kalvaarkkuth
Thallaadhu Puththe Lulaku

The fraudful forfeit life and being here below; Who fraud eschew the bliss of heavenly beings know

Meaning

Even their body will fail the fraudulent; but even the world of the gods will not fail those who are free from fraud.

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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