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Chapter 26: புலான்மறுத்தல்

On Virtue Ascetic Virtue Chapter 26

Kural 256

புலான்மறுத்தல்

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திருக்குறள்

தினற்பொருட்டால் கொல்லாது உலகெனின் யாரும் விலைப்பொருட்டால் ஊன்றருவா ரில்.

Thinarporuttaal Kollaadhu Ulakenin Yaarum Vilaipporuttaal Oondraruvaa Ril

“None would kill and sell the flesh For eating it if they don't wish”

'We eat the slain,' you say, by us no living creatures die;Who'd kill and sell, I pray, if none came there the flesh to buy

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Kural #256

The Voice of Compassion

The story illustrates that the trade of living beings for money exists only because of the human demand for meat, reflecting the Kural's logic. If the world does not destroy life for the purpose of eating, then no one would sell flesh for the sake of money

8–14 yr 1 min