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Virtue / CHAPTER 5

Kural 42

Kural 42 · Domestic Life

துறந்தார்க்கும் துவ்வாதவர்க்கும் இறந்தார்க்கும் இல்வாழ்வான் என்பான் துணை.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

To anchorites, to indigent, to those who've passed away, The man for household virtue famed is needful held and stay.

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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