Thirukkural · பொருட்பால் · தூது

Thirukkural 689

Kural 689

விடுமாற்றம் வேந்தர்க்கு உரைப்பான் வடுமாற்றம்
வாய்சேரா வன்கணவன்.

Vitumaatram Vendharkku Uraippaan Vatumaatram
Vaaiseraa Vanka Navan

His faltering lips must utter no unworthy thing, Who stands, with steady eye, to speak the mandates of his king

Meaning

He alone is fit to communicate (his sovereign's) reply, who possesses the firmness not to utter even inadvertently what may reflect discredit (on the latter).

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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