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Thirukkural 684

Kural 684

அறிவுரு வாராய்ந்த கல்விஇம் மூன்றன்
செறிவுடையான் செல்க வினைக்கு.

Arivuru Vaaraaindha Kalviim Moondran
Serivutaiyaan Selka Vinaikku

Sense, goodly grace, and knowledge exquisiteWho hath these three for envoy's task is fit

Meaning

He may go on a mission (to foreign rulers) who has combined in him all these three viz, (natural) sense, an attractive bearing and well-tried learning.

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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