The Living Kural
Virtue / CHAPTER 8

Kural 80

Kural 80 · The Possession of Love

அன்பின் வழியது உயிர்நிலை அஃதிலார்க்கு என்புதோல் போர்த்த உடம்பு.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

Bodies of loveless men are bony framework clad with skin; Then is the body seat of life, when love resides within.

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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