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Kural 259

Kural 259 · Abstinence from Flesh

அவிசொரிந் தாயிரம் வேட்டலின் ஒன்றன் உயிர்செகுத் துண்ணாமை நன்று.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

Than thousand rich oblations, with libations rare, Better the flesh of slaughtered beings not to share.

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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