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Kural 214

Kural 214 · Duty to Society

ஒத்த தறவோன் உயிர்வாழ்வான் மற்றையான் செத்தாருள் வைக்கப் படும்.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

Who knows what's human life's befitting grace, He lives; the rest 'mongst dead men have their place.

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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