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Kural 262

Kural 262 · Penance

தவமும் தவமுடையார்க்கு ஆகும் அதனை அஃதிலார் மேற்கொள் வது.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

To 'penitents' sincere avails their 'penitence'; Where that is not, 'tis but a vain pretence.

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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