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Thirukkural 343

Chapter 35: துறவு (Renunciation) · Virtue

Kural 343

அடல்வேண்டும் ஐந்தன் புலத்தை விடல்வேண்டும்
வேண்டிய வெல்லாம் ஒருங்கு.

Atalventum Aindhan Pulaththai Vitalventum
Ventiya Vellaam Orungu

'Perceptions of the five' must all expire;-Relinquished in its order each desire

Meaning

Let the five senses be destroyed; and at the same time, let everything be abandoned that (the ascetic) has (formerly) desired.

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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