The Living Kural
Virtue / CHAPTER 28

Kural 280

Kural 280 · Imposture

மழித்தலும் நீட்டலும் வேண்டா உலகம் பழித்தது ஒழித்து விடின்.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

Read Kural 280 ↗
Sourced translation · English

What's the worth of shaven head or tresses long, If you shun what all the world condemns as wrong?

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

Text SHA256: 46b5cf87bedae972e2b083cfa4785b970819eae3b2488a13590d24ba9dd7466c

Full provenance