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Kural 1029

Kural 1029 · The Way of Maintaining the Family

இடும்பைக்கே கொள்கலம் கொல்லோ குடும்பத்தைக் குற்ற மறைப்பான் உடம்பு.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

Is not his body vase that various sorrows fill, Who would his household screen from every ill?

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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