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Kural 219

Kural 219 · Duty to Society

நயனுடையான் நல்கூர்ந்தா னாதல் செயும்நீர செய்யாது அமைகலா வாறு.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

The kindly-hearted man is poor in this alone, When power of doing deeds of goodness he finds none.

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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