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Thirukkural 345

Chapter 35: துறவு (Renunciation) · Virtue

Kural 345

மற்றும் தொடர்ப்பாடு எவன்கொல் பிறப்பறுக்கல்
உற்றார்க்கு உடம்பும் மிகை.

Matrum Thotarppaatu Evankol Pirapparukkal
Utraarkku Utampum Mikai

To those who sev'rance seek from being's varied strife, Flesh is burthen sore; what then other bonds of life

Meaning

What means the addition of other things those who are attempting to cut off (future) births, when even their body is too much (for them).

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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