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Thirukkural 925

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

Kural 925

கையறி யாமை உடைத்தே பொருள்கொடுத்து
மெய்யறி யாமை கொளல்.

Kaiyari Yaamai Utaiththe Porulkotuththu
Meyyari Yaamai Kolal

With gift of goods who self-oblivion buys, Is ignorant of all that man should prize

Meaning

To give money and purchase unconsciousness is the result of one's ignorance of (one's own actions).

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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