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Kural 27

Kural 27 · The Greatness of Ascetics

சுவைஒளி ஊறுஓசை நாற்றமென்ற ஐந்தின் வகைதெரிவான் கட்டே உலகு.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

Taste, light, touch, sound, and smell: who knows the way Of all the five,- the world submissive owns his sway.

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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