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Kural 491

Kural 491 · Knowing the Place

தொடங்கற்க எவ்வினையும் எள்ளற்க முற்றும் இடங்கண்ட பின்அல் லது.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

Begin no work of war, depise no foe, Till place where you can wholly circumvent you know.

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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