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Kural 388

Kural 388 · The Greatness of a King

முறைசெய்து காப்பாற்றும் மன்னவன் மக்கட்கு இறையென்று வைக்கப் படும்.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

Who guards the realm and justice strict maintains, That king as god o'er subject people reigns.

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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