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Thirukkural 704

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

Kural 704

குறித்தது கூறாமைக் கொள்வாரோ டேனை
உறுப்போ ரனையரால் வேறு.

Kuriththadhu Kooraamaik Kolvaaro Tenai
Uruppo Ranaiyaraal Veru

Who reads what's shown by signs, though words unspoken be, In form may seem as other men, in function nobler far is he

Meaning

Those who understand one's thoughts without being informed (thereof) and those who do not, may (indeed) resemble one another bodily; still are they different (mentally).

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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