அறிகொன்று அறியான் எனினும் உறுதி உழையிருந்தான் கூறல் கடன்.
Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition
Read Kural 638 ↗Kural 638
'Tis duty of the man in place aloud to say The very truth, though unwise king may cast his words away.
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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