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Kural 962

Kural 962 · Honour

சீரினும் சீரல்ல செய்யாரே சீரொடு பேராண்மை வேண்டு பவர்.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

Who seek with glory to combine honour's untarnished fame, Do no inglorious deeds, though men accord them glory's name.

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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