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Kural 922

Kural 922 · Not Drinking Palm-Wine

உண்ணற்க கள்ளை உணில்உண்க சான்றோரான் எண்ணப் படவேண்டா தார்.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

Drink not inebriating draught. Let him count well the cost. Who drinks, by drinking, all good men's esteem is lost.

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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