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Kural 212

Kural 212 · Duty to Society

தாளாற்றித் தந்த பொருளெல்லாம் தக்கார்க்கு வேளாண்மை செய்தற் பொருட்டு.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

The worthy say, when wealth rewards their toil-spent hours, For uses of beneficence alone 'tis ours.

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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