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Kural 982

Kural 982 · Perfectness

குணநலம் சான்றோர் நலனே பிறநலம் எந்நலத்து உள்ளதூஉம் அன்று.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

The good of inward excellence they claim, The perfect men; all other good is only good in 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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