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Kural 500

Kural 500 · Knowing the Place

காலாழ் களரில் நரியடும் கண்ணஞ்சா வேலாள் முகத்த களிறு.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

The jackal slays, in miry paths of foot-betraying fen, The elephant of fearless eye and tusks transfixing armed men.

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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