அறவினை யாதெனின் கொல்லாமை கோறல் பிறவினை எல்லாந் தரும்.
Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition
Read Kural 321 ↗Kural 321
What is the work of virtue? 'Not to kill'; For 'killing' leads to every work of ill.
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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