The Living Kural
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Kural 143

Kural 143 · Not coveting another"s Wife

விளிந்தாரின் வேறல்லர் மன்ற தெளிந்தாரில் தீமை புரிந்து ஒழுகு வார்.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

They're numbered with the dead, e'en while they live, -how otherwise? With wife of sure confiding friend who evil things devise.

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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