நல்லாறு எனினும் கொளல்தீது மேலுலகம் இல்லெனினும் ஈதலே நன்று.
Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition
Read Kural 222 ↗Kural 222
Though men declare it heavenward path, yet to receive is ill; Though upper heaven were not, to give is virtue still.
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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