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Kural 1

Kural 1 · The Praise of God

அகர முதல எழுத்தெல்லாம் ஆதி பகவன் முதற்றே உலகு.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

A, as its first of letters, every speech maintains; The 'Primal Deity' is first through all the world's domains.

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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