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Kural 476

Kural 476 · The Knowledge of Power

நுனிக்கொம்பர் ஏறினார் அஃதிறந் தூக்கின் உயிர்க்கிறுதி ஆகி விடும்.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

Who daring climbs, and would himself upraise Beyond the branch's tip, with life the forfeit pays.

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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