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Thirukkural 82

Chapter 9: விருந்தோம்பல் (Hospitality) · Virtue

Kural 82

விருந்து புறத்ததாத் தானுண்டல் சாவா
மருந்தெனினும் வேண் டற்பாற் றன்று.

Virundhu Puraththadhaath Thaanuntal Saavaa
Marundheninum Ventarpaar Randru

Though food of immortality should crown the board, Feasting alone, the guests without unfed, is thing abhorred

Meaning

It is not fit that one should wish his guests to be outside (his house) even though he were eating the food of immortality.

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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