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Chapter 41: கல்லாமை

On Wealth & Statecraft Kingship Chapter 41

Kural 407

கல்லாமை

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நுண்மாண் நுழைபுலம் இல்லான் எழில்நலம் மண்மாண் புனைபாவை யற்று.

Nunmaan Nuzhaipulam Illaan Ezhilnalam Manmaan Punaipaavai Yatru

“Like painted clay-doll is his show Grand subtle lore who fails to know”

Who lack the power of subtle, large, and penetrating sense,Like puppet, decked with ornaments of clay, their beauty's vain pretence

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Kural #407

Beauty and Wisdom

The story illustrates that physical appearance is hollow without the substance of knowledge, mirroring the Kural's metaphor of the earthen doll. The beauty and goodness of one who is destitute of knowledge by the study of great and exquisite works, is like (the beauty and goodness) of a painted earthen doll

8–14 yr 2 min