The Living Kural
Virtue / CHAPTER 9

Kural 85

Kural 85 · Hospitality

வித்தும் இடல்வேண்டும் கொல்லோ விருந்தோம்பி மிச்சில் மிசைவான் புலம்.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

Who first regales his guest, and then himself supplies, O'er all his fields, unsown, shall plenteous harvests rise.

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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