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Thirukkural 739

Kural 739

நாடென்ப நாடா வளத்தன நாடல்ல
நாட வளந்தரு நாடு.

Naatenpa Naataa Valaththana Naatalla
Naata Valandharu Naatu

That is a land that yields increase unsought, That is no land whose gifts with toil are bought

Meaning

The learned say that those are kingdom whose wealth is not laboured for, and those not, whose wealth is only obtained through labour.

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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