The Living Kural
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Kural 237

Kural 237 · Renown

புகழ்பட வாழாதார் தந்நோவார் தம்மை இகழ்வாரை நோவது எவன்?

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

If you your days will spend devoid of goodly fame, When men despise, why blame them? You've yourself to blame.

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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