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Thirukkural 796

Chapter 80: நட்பாராய்தல் (Investigation in forming Friendships) · Wealth

Kural 796

கேட்டினும் உண்டோர் உறுதி கிளைஞரை
நீட்டி அளப்பதோர் கோல்.

Kettinum Untor Urudhi Kilaignarai
Neetti Alappadhor Kol

Ruin itself one blessing lends:'Tis staff that measures out one's friends

Meaning

Even in ruin there is some good; (for) it is a rod by which one may measure fully (the affection of one's) relations.

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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