The Living Kural
Virtue / CHAPTER 19

Kural 186

Kural 186 · Not Backbiting

பிறன்பழி கூறுவான் தன்பழி யுள்ளும் திறன்தெரிந்து கூறப் படும்.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

Who on his neighbours' sins delights to dwell, The story of his sins, culled out with care, the world will tell.

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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