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Chapter 33: கொல்லாமை

On Virtue Ascetic Virtue Chapter 33

Kural 330

கொல்லாமை

Position 10/10

திருக்குறள்

உயிருடம்பின் நீக்கியா ரென்ப செயிருடம்பின் செல்லாத்தீ வாழ்க்கை யவர்.

Uyir Utampin Neekkiyaar Enpa Seyir Utampin Sellaaththee Vaazhkkai

“The loathsome poor sickly and sore Are killers stained by blood before”

Who lead a loathed life in bodies sorely pained,Are men, the wise declare, by guilt of slaughter stained

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Kural #330

The Seed of Kindness

The story illustrates the Kural's teaching that harming or killing animals leads to a life of suffering, poverty, and ill health in the future. (The wise) will say that men of diseased bodies, who live in degradation and in poverty, are those who separated the life from the body of animals (in a former birth)

8–14 yr 2 min