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Thirukkural 678

Chapter 68: வினை செயல்வகை (Modes of Action) · Wealth

Kural 678

வினையான் வினையாக்கிக் கோடல் நனைகவுள்
யானையால் யானையாத் தற்று.

Vinaiyaan Vinaiyaakkik Kotal Nanaikavul
Yaanaiyaal Yaanaiyaath Thatru

By one thing done you reach a second work's accomplishment; So furious elephant to snare its fellow brute is sent

Meaning

To make one undertaking the means of accomplishing another (similar to it) is like making one rutting elephant the means of capturing another.

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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