The Living Kural
Virtue / CHAPTER 15

Kural 142

Kural 142 · Not coveting another"s Wife

அறன்கடை நின்றாருள் எல்லாம் பிறன்கடை நின்றாரின் பேதையார் இல்.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

Read Kural 142 ↗
Sourced translation · English

No fools, of all that stand from virtue's pale shut out, Like those who longing lurk their neighbour's gate without.

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

Source record

Tiruvalluvar; Tamil digital dataset Senkanthal.org

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

Text SHA256: c792efddd04ff0846c07f9e83abeb5a314e545fa8eb1b8653e6ec0013f75a830

Full provenance