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Thirukkural 565

Chapter 57: வெருவந்த செய்யாமை (Absence of Terrorism) · Wealth

Kural 565

அருஞ்செவ்வி இன்னா முகத்தான் பெருஞ்செல்வம்
பேஎய்கண் டன்னது உடைத்து.

Arunjevvi Innaa Mukaththaan Perunjelvam
Peeykan Tannadhu Utaiththu

Whom subjects scarce may see, of harsh forbidding countenance; His ample wealth shall waste, blasted by demon's glance

Meaning

The great wealth of him who is difficult of access and possesses a sternness of countenance, is like that which has been obtained by a devil.

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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