Thirukkural 110 in English
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Tamil original
எந்நன்றி கொன்றார்க்கும் உய்வுண்டாம் உய்வில்லை
செய்ந்நன்றி கொன்ற மகற்கு.
Transliteration
Ennandri Kondraarkkum Uyvuntaam Uyvillai
Seynnandri Kondra Makarku
Modern English
“People can recover from almost any wrongdoing eventually, but forgetting someone who genuinely helped you is a kind of damage that's hard to undo, because it corrodes trust in a way little else does.”
Modern Interpretation
People can recover from almost any wrongdoing eventually, but forgetting someone who genuinely helped you is a kind of damage that's hard to undo, because it corrodes trust in a way little else does. For example, ghosting the mentor who once vouched for you when you needed a chance can cost you a relationship no apology fully repairs.
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Modern Plain English
People can recover from almost any wrongdoing eventually, but forgetting someone who genuinely helped you is a kind of damage that's hard to undo, because it corrodes trust in a way little else does.
Poetic Couplet (Bharati)
The virtue-killer may be saved Not benefit-killer who is damned
G.U. Pope Translation
Who every good have killed, may yet destruction flee;Who 'benefit' has killed, that man shall ne'er 'scape free
Classical Meaning (Drew & Lazarus)
He who has killed every virtue may yet escape; there is no escape for him who has killed a benefit
Tamil commentary
எத்தனை பெரிய அறங்களை அழித்தவர்க்கும் பாவத்தைக் கழுவ வழிகள் உண்டு. ஆனால், ஒருவர் செய்த உதவியை மறந்து தீமை செய்பவனுக்கு வழியே இல்லை
Chapter 11
More from Gratitude
செய்ந்நன்றியறிதல்
Unhelped in turn good help given Exceeds in worth earth and heaven
Kural 102A help rendered in hour of need Though small is greater than the world
Kural 103Help rendered without weighing fruits Outweighs the sea in grand effects
Kural 104Help given though millet-small Knowers count its good palm-tree tall
Kural 105A help is not the help's measure It is gainer's worth and pleasure
Kural 106Forget not friendship of the pure Forsake not timely helpers sure
Kural 107Through sevenfold births, in memory fares The willing friend who wiped one's tears
Kural 108To forget good turns is not good Good it is over wrong not to brood
Kural 109Let deadly harms be forgotten While remembering one good-turn
Kural 110The virtue-killer may be saved Not benefit-killer who is damned