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Kural 122

Kural 122 · The Possession of Self-restraint

காக்க பொருளா அடக்கத்தை ஆக்கம் அதனினூஉங் கில்லை உயிர்க்கு.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

Guard thou as wealth the power of self-control; Than this no greater gain to living soul!

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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