உண்ணாமை உள்ளது உயிர்நிலை ஊனுண்ண அண்ணாத்தல் செய்யாது அளறு.
Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition
Read Kural 255 ↗Kural 255
If flesh you eat not, life's abodes unharmed remain; Who eats, hell swallows him, and renders not again.
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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