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Kural 485

Kural 485 · Knowing the fitting Time

காலம் கருதி இருப்பர் கலங்காது ஞாலம் கருது பவர்.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

Who think the pendant world itself to subjugate, With mind unruffled for the fitting time must wait.

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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