The Living Kural
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Kural 334

Kural 334 · Instability

நாளென ஒன்றுபோற் காட்டி உயிர் ஈரும் வாளது உணர்வார்ப் பெறின்.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

As 'day' it vaunts itself; well understood, 'tis knife', That daily cuts away a portion from thy life.

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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