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Kural 480

Kural 480 · The Knowledge of Power

உளவரை தூக்காத ஒப்புர வாண்மை வளவரை வல்லைக் கெடும்.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

Beneficence that measures not its bound of means, Will swiftly bring to nought the wealth on which it leans.

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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