Thirukkural 930 in English
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Tamil original
கள்ளுண்ணாப் போழ்திற் களித்தானைக் காணுங்கால்
உள்ளான்கொல் உண்டதன் சோர்வு.
Transliteration
Kallunnaap Pozhdhir Kaliththaanaik Kaanungaal
Ullaankol Untadhan Sorvu
Modern English
“When a sober drinker sees another person staggering drunk, they should remember that alcohol can make them look the same.”
Modern Interpretation
When a sober drinker sees another person staggering drunk, they should remember that alcohol can make them look the same. For example, watching a friend embarrass themselves at a party should be a warning, not an invitation to repeat it.
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Modern Plain English
When a sober drinker sees another person staggering drunk, they should remember that alcohol can make them look the same.
Poetic Couplet (Bharati)
The sober seeing the drunkard's plight On selves can't they feel same effect?
G.U. Pope Translation
When one, in sober interval, a drunken man espies,Does he not think, 'Such is my folly in my revelries'
Classical Meaning (Drew & Lazarus)
When (a drunkard) who is sober sees one who is not, it looks as if he remembered not the evil effects of his (own) drink
Tamil commentary
போதைப் பொருளை ஒருவன் பயன்படுத்தாத போது, அதைப் பயன்படுத்தி இருப்பவனைப் பார்த்துத் தான் பயன்படுத்தும்போது தனக்கும் இத்தகைய நிலைதானே உண்டாகும் என்று எண்ணிப் பார்க்கமாட்டானோ?
Chapter 93
More from Not Drinking Palm-Wine
கள்ளுண்ணாமை
Foes fear not who for toddy craze The addicts daily their glory lose
Kural 922Drink not liquor; but let them drink Whom with esteem the wise won't think
Kural 923The drunkard's joy pains ev'n mother's face How vile must it look for the wise?
Kural 924Good shame turns back from him ashamed Who is guilty of wine condemned
Kural 925To pay and drink and lose the sense Is nothing but rank ignorance
Kural 926They take poison who take toddy And doze ev'n like a dead body
Kural 927The secret drunkards' senses off Make the prying public laugh
Kural 928Don't say I'm not a drunkard hard The hidden fraud is known abroad
Kural 929Can torch search one in water sunk? Can reason reach the raving drunk?
Kural 930The sober seeing the drunkard's plight On selves can't they feel same effect?