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Thirukkural 936

Kural 936

அகடாரார் அல்லல் உழப்பர்சூ தென்னும்
முகடியான் மூடப்பட் டார்.

Akataaraar Allal Uzhapparsoo Thennum
Mukatiyaan Mootappat Taar

Gambling's Misfortune's other name: o'er whom she casts her veil, They suffer grievous want, and sorrows sore bewail

Meaning

Those who are swallowed by the goddess called "gambling" will never have their hunger satisfied, but suffer the pangs of hell in the next world.

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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