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Thirukkural 332

Chapter 34: நிலையாமை (Instability) · Virtue

Kural 332

கூத்தாட்டு அவைக்குழாத் தற்றே பெருஞ்செல்வம்
போக்கும் அதுவிளிந் தற்று.

Kooththaattu Avaik Kuzhaath Thatre
Perunjelvam Pokkum Adhuvilin Thatru

As crowds round dancers fill the hall, is wealth's increase; Its loss, as throngs dispersing, when the dances cease

Meaning

The acquisition of wealth is like the gathering together of an assembly for a theatre; its expenditure is like the breaking up of that assembly.

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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