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Thirukkural 776

Chapter 78: படைச் செருக்கு (Military Spirit) · Wealth

Kural 776

விழுப்புண் படாதநாள் எல்லாம் வழுக்கினுள்
வைக்கும்தன் நாளை எடுத்து.

Vizhuppun Pataadhanaal Ellaam Vazhukkinul
Vaikkumdhan Naalai Etuththu

The heroes, counting up their days, set down as vainEach day when they no glorious wound sustain

Meaning

The hero will reckon among wasted days all those on which he had not received severe wounds.

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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