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Kural 408

Kural 408 · Ignorance

நல்லார்கண் பட்ட வறுமையின் இன்னாதே கல்லார்கண் பட் ட திரு.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

To men unlearned, from fortune's favour greater-evil springs Than poverty to men of goodly wisdom brings.

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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