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Chapter 89: உட்பகை

On Wealth & Statecraft The Limbs of Society Chapter 89

Kural 887

உட்பகை

Position 7/10

திருக்குறள்

செப்பின் புணர்ச்சிபோல் கூடினும் கூடாதே உட்பகை உற்ற குடி.

Seppin Punarchchipol Kootinum Kootaadhe Utpakai Utra Kuti

“A house hiding hostiles in core Just seems on like the lid in jar”

As casket with its cover, though in one they live alway,No union to the house where hate concealed hath sway

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Kural #887

The Box and Its Lid

The story uses the metaphor of a box and its lid to show that outward unity is meaningless if there is internal enmity. Never indeed will a family subject to internal hatred unite (really) though it may present an apparent union like that of a casket and its lid

8–14 yr 2 min