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Thirukkural 922

Chapter 93: கள்ளுண்ணாமை (Not Drinking Palm-Wine) · Wealth

Kural 922

உண்ணற்க கள்ளை உணில்உண்க சான்றோரான்
எண்ணப் படவேண்டா தார்.

Unnarka Kallai Unilunka Saandroraan
Ennap Pataventaa Thaar

Drink not inebriating draught Let him count well the costWho drinks, by drinking, all good men's esteem is lost

Meaning

Let no liquor be drunk; if it is desired, let it be drunk by those who care not for esteem of the great.

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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