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Kural 558

Kural 558 · The Cruel Sceptre

இன்மையின் இன்னாது உடைமை முறைசெய்யா மன்னவன் கோற்கீழ்ப் படின்.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

To poverty it adds a sharper sting, To live beneath the sway of unjust king.

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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