The Living Kural
Virtue / CHAPTER 21

Kural 209

Kural 209 · Dread of Evil Deeds

தன்னைத்தான் காதல னாயின் எனைத்தொன்றும் துன்னற்க தீவினைப் பால்.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

Beware, if to thyself thyself is dear, Lest thou to aught that ranks as ill draw near!

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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