The Living Kural
Virtue / CHAPTER 28

Kural 277

Kural 277 · Imposture

புறங்குன்றி கண்டனைய ரேனும் அகங்குன்றி முக்கிற் கரியார் உடைத்து.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

Outward, they shine as 'kunri' berry's scarlet bright; Inward, like tip of 'kunri' bead, as black as night.

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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