The Living Kural
Virtue / CHAPTER 31

Kural 307

Kural 307 · Restraining Anger

சினத்தைப் பொருளென்று கொண்டவன் கேடு நிலத்தறைந்தான் கைபிழையா தற்று.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

The hand that smites the earth unfailing feels the sting; So perish they who nurse their wrath as noble thing.

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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