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Kural 238

Kural 238 · Renown

வசையென்ப வையத்தார்க் கெல்லாம் இசையென்னும் எச்சம் பெறாஅ விடின்.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

Fame is virtue's child, they say; if, then, You childless live, you live the scorn of men.

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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