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Thirukkural 9

Chapter 1: கடவுள் வாழ்த்து (The Praise of God) · Virtue

Kural 9

கோளில் பொறியின் குணமிலவே எண்குணத்தான்
தாளை வணங்காத் தலை.

Kolil Poriyin Kunamilave Enkunaththaan
Thaalai Vanangaath Thalai

Before His foot, 'the Eight-fold Excellence,' with unbent head, Who stands, like palsied sense, is to all living functions dead

Meaning

The head that worships not the feet of Him who is possessed of eight attributes, is as useless as a sense without the power of sensation.

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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