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Thirukkural 520

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Kural 520

நாடோறும் நாடுக மன்னன் வினைசெய்வான்
கோடாமை கோடா துலகு.

Naatorum Naatuka Mannan Vinaiseyvaan
Kotaamai Kotaa Thulaku

Let king search out his servants' deeds each day; When these do right, the world goes rightly on its way

Meaning

Let a king daily examine the conduct of his servants; if they do not act crookedly, the world will not act crookedly.

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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