ருளல்லது யாதெனின் கொல்லாமை கோறல் பொருளல்லது அவ்வூன் தினல்.
Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition
Read Kural 254 ↗Kural 254
'What's grace, or lack of grace'? 'To kill' is this, that 'not to kill'; To eat dead flesh can never worthy end fulfil.
G. U. Pope · 1886 · Public domain. Historical wording is preserved.
Source record
Tiruvalluvar; Tamil digital dataset Senkanthal.org
MIT (explicit dataset permission in repository README); underlying classical Tamil public domain
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