மனத்தது மாசாக மாண்டார் நீராடி மறைந்தொழுகு மாந்தர் பலர்.
Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition
Read Kural 278 ↗Kural 278
Many wash in hollowed waters, living lives of hidden shame; Foul in heart, yet high upraised of men in virtuous fame.
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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