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Kural 519

Kural 519 · Selection and Employment

வினைக்கண் வினையுடையான் கேண்மைவே றாக நினைப்பானை நீங்கும் திரு.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

Fortune deserts the king who ill can bear, Informal friendly ways of men his tolls who share.

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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