The Hand That Catches the Garment

Udukkai izhandhavan kaipola aange idukkan kalaivadhaam natpu. This is couplet 788 of the Tirukkural. In one English rendering: “(True) friendship hastens to the rescue of the afflicted (as readily) as the hand of one whose garment is loosened.”

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