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Thirukkural 384

Chapter 39: இறைமாட்சி (The Greatness of a King) · Wealth

Kural 384

அறனிழுக்கா தல்லவை நீக்கி மறனிழுக்கா
மானம் உடைய தரசு.

Aranizhukkaa Thallavai Neekki Maranizhukkaa
Maanam Utaiya Tharasu

Kingship, in virtue failing not, all vice restrains, In courage failing not, it honour's grace maintains

Meaning

He is a king who, with manly modesty, swerves not from virtue, and refrains from vice.

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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