The Living Kural
Virtue / CHAPTER 18

Kural 177

Kural 177 · Not Coveting

வேண்டற்க வெஃகியாம் ஆக்கம் விளைவயின் மாண்டற் கரிதாம் பயன்.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

Seek not increase by greed of gain acquired; That fruit matured yields never good desired.

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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