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Thirukkural 376

Kural 376

பரியினும் ஆகாவாம் பாலல்ல உய்த்துச்
சொரியினும் போகா தம.

Pariyinum Aakaavaam Paalalla Uyththuch
Choriyinum Pokaa Thama

Things not your own will yield no good, howe'er you guard with pain; Your own, howe'er you scatter them abroad, will yours remain

Meaning

Whatever is not conferred by fate cannot be preserved although it be guarded with most painful care; and that, which fate has made his, cannot be lost, although one should even take it and throw it away.

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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