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Thirukkural 802

Chapter 81: பழைமை (Familiarity) · Wealth

Kural 802

நட்பிற் குறுப்புக் கெழுதகைமை மற்றதற்கு
உப்பாதல் சான்றோர் கடன்.

Natpir Kuruppuk Kezhudhakaimai Matradharku
Uppaadhal Saandror Katan

Familiar freedom friendship's very frame supplies; To be its savour sweet is duty of the wise

Meaning

The constituents of friendship are (things done through) the right of intimacy; to be pleased with such a right is the duty of the wise.

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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