Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma

author, poet, teacher, and performer

Kural 76: The Kural on Love and Wrongdoing

A verse on having love and what love befriends.

76
It serves only virtue say those who don’t know—but love
Is friend to wrong too

அறத்திற்கே அன்புசார் பென்ப அறியார்
மறத்திற்கும் அஃதே துணை

From chapter 8, “Having Love.”

Translated from the Tamil by Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma
THE KURAL: Tiruvalluvar’s Tirukkural
Beacon Press, Boston

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