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Thirukkural 484

Chapter 49: காலமறிதல் (Knowing the fitting Time) · Wealth

Kural 484

ஞாலம் கருதினுங் கைகூடுங் காலம்
கருதி இடத்தாற் செயின்.

Gnaalam Karudhinung Kaikootung Kaalam
Karudhi Itaththaar Seyin

The pendant world's dominion may be won, In fitting time and place by action done

Meaning

Though (a man) should meditate (the conquest of) the world, he may accomplish it if he acts in the right time, and at the right place.

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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