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Thirukkural 898

Chapter 90: பெரியாரைப் பிழையாமை (Not Offending the Great) · Wealth

Kural 898

குன்றன்னார் குன்ற மதிப்பின் குடியொடு
நின்றன்னார் மாய்வர் நிலத்து.

Kundrannaar Kundra Madhippin Kutiyotu
Nindrannaar Maaivar Nilaththu

If they, whose virtues like a mountain rise, are light esteemed; They die from earth who, with their households, ever-during seemed

Meaning

If (the) hill-like (devotees) resolve on destruction, those who seemed to be everlasting will be destroyed root and branch from the earth.

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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