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Thirukkural 478

Chapter 48: வலியறிதல் (The Knowledge of Power) · Wealth

Kural 478

ஆகாறு அளவிட்டி தாயினுங் கேடில்லை
போகாறு அகலாக் கடை.

Aakaaru Alavitti Thaayinung Ketillai
Pokaaru Akalaak Katai

Incomings may be scant; but yet, no failure there, If in expenditure you rightly learn to spare

Meaning

Even though the income (of a king) be small, it will not cause his (ruin), if his outgoings be not larger than his income.

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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