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Kural 496

Kural 496 · Knowing the Place

கடலோடா கால்வல் நெடுந்தேர் கடலோடும் நாவாயும் ஓடா நிலத்து.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

The lofty car, with mighty wheel, sails not o'er watery main, The boat that skims the sea, runs not on earth's hard plain.

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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