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Kural 438

Kural 438 · The Correction of Faults

பற்றுள்ளம் என்னும் இவறன்மை எற்றுள்ளும் எண்ணப் படுவதொன் றன்று.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

The greed of soul that avarice men call, When faults are summed, is worst of all.

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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