The Living Kural
Virtue / CHAPTER 4

Kural 38

Kural 38 · Assertion of the Strength of Virtue

வீழ்நாள் படாஅமை நன்றாற்றின் அஃதொருவன் வாழ்நாள் வழியடைக்கும் கல்.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

If no day passing idly, good to do each day you toil, A stone it will be to block the way of future days of moil.

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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