The Living Kural
Virtue / CHAPTER 4

Kural 31

Kural 31 · Assertion of the Strength of Virtue

சிறப்பு ஈனும் செல்வமும் ஈனும் அறத்தினூஉங்கு ஆக்கம் எவனோ உயிர்க்கு.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

It yields distinction, yields prosperity; what gain Greater than virtue can a living man obtain?

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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