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Thirukkural 553

Chapter 56: கொடுங்கோன்மை (The Cruel Sceptre) · Wealth

Kural 553

நாடொறும் நாடி முறைசெய்யா மன்னவன்
நாடொறும் நாடு கெடும்.

Naatorum Naati Muraiseyyaa Mannavan
Naatorum Naatu Ketum

Who makes no daily search for wrongs, nor justly rules, that kingDoth day by day his realm to ruin bring

Meaning

The country of the king who does not daily examine into the wrongs done and distribute justice, will daily fall to ruin.

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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