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Kural 499

Kural 499 · Knowing the Place

சிறைநலனும் சீரும் இலரெனினும் மாந்தர் உறைநிலத்தோடு ஒட்டல் அரிது.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

Though fort be none, and store of wealth they lack, 'Tis hard a people's homesteads to attack!

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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