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Kural 448

Kural 448 · Seeking the Aid of Great Men

இடிப்பாரை இல்லாத ஏமரா மன்னன் கெடுப்பா ரிலானுங் கெடும்.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

The king with none to censure him, bereft of safeguards all, Though none his ruin work, shall surely ruined fall.

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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