The Living Kural
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Kural 206

Kural 206 · Dread of Evil Deeds

தீப்பால தான்பிறர்கண் செய்யற்க நோய்ப்பால தன்னை அடல்வேண்டா தான்.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

What ranks as evil spare to do, if thou would'st shun Affliction sore through ill to thee by others done.

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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