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Thirukkural 889

Chapter 89: உட்பகை (Enmity within) · Wealth

Kural 889

எட்பக வன்ன சிறுமைத்தே ஆயினும்
உட்பகை உள்ளதாங் கேடு.

Etpaka Vanna Sirumaiththe Aayinum
Utpakai Ulladhaang Ketu

Though slight as shred of 'seasame' seed it be, Destruction lurks in hidden enmity

Meaning

Although internal hatred be as small as the fragment of the sesamum (seed), still does destruction dwell in it.

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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