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Thirukkural 701

Chapter 71: குறிப்பறிதல் (The Knowledge of Indications) · Wealth

Kural 701

கூறாமை நோக்கக் குறிப்பறிவான் எஞ்ஞான்றும்
மாறாநீர் வையக் கணி.

Kooraamai Nokkake Kuripparivaan Egngnaandrum
Maaraaneer Vaiyak Kani

Who knows the sign, and reads unuttered thought, the gem is he, Of earth round traversed by the changeless sea

Meaning

The minister who by looking (at the king) understands his mind without being told (of it), will be a perpetual ornament to the world which is surrounded by a never-drying sea.

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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