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Kural 239

Kural 239 · Renown

வசையிலா வண்பயன் குன்றும் இசையிலா யாக்கை பொறுத்த நிலம்.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

The blameless fruits of fields' increase will dwindle down, If earth the burthen bear of men without renown.

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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