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Thirukkural 313

Chapter 32: இன்னா செய்யாமை (Not doing Evil) · Virtue

Kural 313

செய்யாமல் செற்றார்க்கும் இன்னாத செய்தபின்
உய்யா விழுமந் தரும்.

Seyyaamal Setraarkkum Innaadha Seydhapin
Uyyaa Vizhuman Tharum

Though unprovoked thy soul malicious foes should sting, Retaliation wrought inevitable woes will bring

Meaning

In an ascetic inflict suffering even on those who hate him, when he has not done them any evil, it will afterwards give him irretrievable sorrow.

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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