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Kural 1080

Kural 1080 · Baseness

எற்றிற் குரியர் கயவரொன்று உற்றக்கால் விற்றற்கு உரியர் விரைந்து.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

For what is base man fit, if griefs assail? Himself to offer, there and then, for sale!

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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