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Kural 419

Kural 419 · Hearing

நுணங்கிய கேள்விய ரல்லார் வணங்கிய வாயின ராதல் அரிது.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

'Tis hard for mouth to utter gentle, modest word, When ears discourse of lore refined have never heard.

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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