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Thirukkural 887

Chapter 89: உட்பகை (Enmity within) · Wealth

Kural 887

செப்பின் புணர்ச்சிபோல் கூடினும் கூடாதே
உட்பகை உற்ற குடி.

Seppin Punarchchipol Kootinum Kootaadhe
Utpakai Utra Kuti

As casket with its cover, though in one they live alway, No union to the house where hate concealed hath sway

Meaning

Never indeed will a family subject to internal hatred unite (really) though it may present an apparent union like that of a casket and its lid.

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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