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Thirukkural 340

Chapter 34: நிலையாமை (Instability) · Virtue

Kural 340

புக்கில் அமைந்தின்று கொல்லோ உடம்பினுள்
துச்சில் இருந்த உயிர்க்கு.

Pukkil Amaindhindru Kollo Utampinul
Thuchchil Irundha Uyirkku

The soul in fragile shed as lodger courts repose:-Is it because no home's conclusive rest it knows

Meaning

It seems as if the soul, which takes a temporary shelter in a body, had not attained a home.

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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