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Thirukkural 333

Chapter 34: நிலையாமை (Instability) · Virtue

Kural 333

அற்கா இயல்பிற்றுச் செல்வம் அதுபெற்றால்
அற்குப ஆங்கே செயல்.

Arkaa Iyalpitruch Chelvam Adhupetraal
Arkupa Aange Seyal

Unenduring is all wealth; if you wealth enjoy, Enduring works in working wealth straightway employ

Meaning

Wealth is perishable; let those who obtain it immediately practise those (virtues) which are imperishable.

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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