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Thirukkural 605

Chapter 61: மடி இன்மை (Unsluggishness) · Wealth

Kural 605

நெடுநீர் மறவி மடிதுயில் நான்கும்
கெடுநீரார் காமக் கலன்.

Netuneer Maravi Matidhuyil Naankum
Ketuneeraar Kaamak Kalan

Delay, oblivion, sloth, and sleep: these fourAre pleasure-boat to bear the doomed to ruin's shore

Meaning

Procrastination, forgetfulness, idleness, and sleep, these four things, form the vessel which is desired by those destined to destruction.

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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