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Thirukkural 77

Chapter 8: அன்புடைமை (The Possession of Love) · Virtue

Kural 77

என்பி லதனை வெயில்போலக் காயுமே
அன்பி லதனை அறம்.

Enpi Ladhanai Veyilpolak Kaayume
Anpi Ladhanai Aram

As sun's fierce ray dries up the boneless things, So loveless beings virtue's power to nothing brings

Meaning

Virtue will burn up the soul which is without love, even as the sun burns up the creature which is without bone, ie worms.

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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