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Kural 385

Kural 385 · The Greatness of a King

இயற்றலும் ஈட்டலுங் காத்தலும் காத்த வகுத்தலும் வல்ல தரசு.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

A king is he who treasure gains, stores up, defends, And duly for his kingdom's weal expends.

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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