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Kural 1020

Kural 1020 · Shame

நாண்அகத் தில்லார் இயக்கம் மரப்பாவை நாணால் உயிர்மருட்டி அற்று.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

'Tis as with strings a wooden puppet apes life's functions, when Those void of shame within hold intercourse with men.

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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