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Kural 1247

Kural 1247 · Soliloquy

காமம் விடுஒன்றோ நாண்விடு நன்னெஞ்சே யானோ பொறேன்இவ் விரண்டு.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

Or bid thy love, or bid thy shame depart; For me, I cannot bear them both, my worthy heart!

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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