Skip to content
Current moon phase NilaTales English
Chapter 17: அழுக்காறாமை

On Virtue Domestic Virtue Chapter 17

Kural 166

அழுக்காறாமை

Position 6/10

திருக்குறள்

கொடுப்பது அழுக்கறுப்பான் சுற்றம் உடுப்பதூஉம் உண்பதூஉம் இன்றிக் கெடும்.

Kotuppadhu Azhukkaruppaan Sutram Utuppadhooum Unpadhooum Indrik Ketum

“Who envies gifts shall suffer ruin Without food and clothes with his kin”

Who scans good gifts to others given with envious eye,His kin, with none to clothe or feed them, surely die

Story adaptations

Read this Kural as a story

View whole chapter →
Kural #166

The Cost of Envy

The story illustrates Kural 166, showing how envy leads to social isolation and eventual destitution. He who is envious at a gift (made to another) will with his relations utterly perish destitute of food and rainment

8–14 yr 1 min