The Living Kural
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Kural 261

Kural 261 · Penance

உற்றநோய் நோன்றல் உயிர்க்குறுகண் செய்யாமை அற்றே தவத்திற் குரு.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

To bear due penitential pains, while no offence He causes others, is the type of 'penitence'.

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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