The Living Kural
Virtue / CHAPTER 23

Kural 229

Kural 229 · Giving

இரத்தலின் இன்னாது மன்ற நிரப்பிய தாமே தமியர் உணல்.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

They keep their garners full, for self alone the board they spread;- 'Tis greater pain, be sure, than begging daily bread!

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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