The Living Kural
Virtue / CHAPTER 3

Kural 29

Kural 29 · The Greatness of Ascetics

குணமென்னும் குன்றேறி நின்றார் வெகுளி கணமேயும் காத்தல் அரிது.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

The wrath 'tis hard e'en for an instant to endure, Of those who virtue's hill have scaled, and stand secure.

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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