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Thirukkural 401

Chapter 41: கல்லாமை (Ignorance) · Wealth

Kural 401

அரங்கின்றி வட்டாடி யற்றே நிரம்பிய
நூலின்றிக் கோட்டி கொளல்.

Arangindri Vattaati Yatre Nirampiya
Noolindrik Kotti Kolal

Like those at draughts would play without the chequered square, Men void of ample lore would counsels of the learned share

Meaning

To speak in an assembly (of the learned) without fullness of knowledge, is like playing at chess (on a board) without squares.

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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