பொய்படும் ஒன்றோ புனைபூணும் கையறியாப் பேதை வினைமேற் கொளின்.
Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition
Read Kural 836 ↗Kural 836
When fool some task attempts with uninstructed pains, It fails; nor that alone, himself he binds with chains.
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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