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Thirukkural 330

Chapter 33: கொல்லாமை (Not killing) · Virtue

Kural 330

உயிருடம்பின் நீக்கியா ரென்ப செயிருடம்பின்
செல்லாத்தீ வாழ்க்கை யவர்.

Uyir Utampin Neekkiyaar Enpa
Seyir Utampin Sellaaththee Vaazhkkai

Who lead a loathed life in bodies sorely pained, Are men, the wise declare, by guilt of slaughter stained

Meaning

(The wise) will say that men of diseased bodies, who live in degradation and in poverty, are those who separated the life from the body of animals (in a former birth).

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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