The Living Kural
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Kural 1061

Kural 1061 · The Dread of Mendicancy

கரவாது உவந்தீயும் கண்ணன்னார் கண்ணும் இரவாமை கோடி உறும்.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

Ten million-fold 'tis greater gain, asking no alms to live, Even from those, like eyes in worth, who nought concealing gladly give.

G. U. Pope · 1886 · Public domain. Historical wording is preserved.

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Tiruvalluvar; Tamil digital dataset Senkanthal.org

MIT (explicit dataset permission in repository README); underlying classical Tamil public domain

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