The Living Kural
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Kural 173

Kural 173 · Not Coveting

சிற்றின்பம் வெஃகி அறனல்ல செய்யாரே மற்றின்பம் வேண்டு பவர்.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

No deeds of ill, misled by base desire, Do they, whose souls to other joys aspire.

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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