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Kural 925

Kural 925 · Not Drinking Palm-Wine

கையறி யாமை உடைத்தே பொருள்கொடுத்து மெய்யறி யாமை கொளல்.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

With gift of goods who self-oblivion buys, Is ignorant of all that man should prize.

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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