The Living Kural
Virtue / CHAPTER 19

Kural 190

Kural 190 · Not Backbiting

ஏதிலார் குற்றம்போல் தங்குற்றங் காண்கிற்பின் தீதுண்டோ மன்னும் உயிர்க்கு.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

If each his own, as neighbours' faults would scan, Could any evil hap to living man?

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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