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Thirukkural 339

Chapter 34: நிலையாமை (Instability) · Virtue

Kural 339

உறங்கு வதுபோலுஞ் சாக்காடு உறங்கி
விழிப்பது போலும் பிறப்பு.

Urangu Vadhupolunj Chaakkaatu Urangi
Vizhippadhu Polum Pirappu

Death is sinking into slumbers deep; Birth again is waking out of sleep

Meaning

Death is like sleep; birth is like awaking from it.

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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