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Thirukkural 617

Chapter 62: ஆள்வினை உடைமை (Manly Effort) · Wealth

Kural 617

மடியுளாள் மாமுகடி என்ப மடியிலான்
தாளுளான் தாமரையி னாள்.

Matiyulaal Maamukati Enpa Matiyilaan
Thaalulaan Thaamaraiyi Naal

In sluggishness is seen misfortune's lurid form, the wise declare; Where man unslothful toils, she of the lotus flower is there

Meaning

They say that the black Mudevi (the goddess of adversity) dwells with laziness, and the Latchmi (the goddess of prosperity) dwells with the labour of the industrious.

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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