The Living Kural
Virtue / CHAPTER 18

Kural 176

Kural 176 · Not Coveting

அருள்வெஃகி ஆற்றின்கண் நின்றான் பொருள்வெஃகிப் பொல்லாத சூழக் கெடும்.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

Though, grace desiring, he in virtue's way stand strong, He's lost who wealth desires, and ponders deeds of wrong.

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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