The Living Kural
Virtue / CHAPTER 25

Kural 243

Kural 243 · Compassion

அருள்சேர்ந்த நெஞ்சினார்க் கில்லை இருள்சேர்ந்த இன்னா உலகம் புகல்.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

They in whose breast a 'gracious kindliness' resides, See not the gruesome world, where darkness drear abides.

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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