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Kural 559

Kural 559 · The Cruel Sceptre

முறைகோடி மன்னவன் செய்யின் உறைகோடி ஒல்லாது வானம் பெயல்.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

Where king from right deflecting, makes unrighteous gain, The seasons change, the clouds pour down no rain.

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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