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Kural 542

Kural 542 · The Right Sceptre

வானோக்கி வாழும் உலகெல்லாம் மன்னவன் கோல் நோக்கி வாழுங் குடி.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

All earth looks up to heav'n whence raindrops fall; All subjects look to king that ruleth all.

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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