தாளாண்மை இல்லாதான் வேளாண்மை பேடிகை வாளாண்மை போலக் கெடும்.
Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition
Read Kural 614 ↗Kural 614
Beneficent intent in men by whom no strenuous work is wrought, Like battle-axe in sexless being's hand availeth nought.
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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