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Thirukkural 336

Chapter 34: நிலையாமை (Instability) · Virtue

Kural 336

நெருநல் உளனொருவன் இன்றில்லை என்னும்
பெருமை உடைத்துஇவ் வுலகு.

Nerunal Ulanoruvan Indrillai Ennum
Perumai Utaiththuiv Vulaku

Existing yesterday, today to nothing hurled!-Such greatness owns this transitory world

Meaning

This world possesses the greatness that one who yesterday was is not today.

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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