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Kural 617

Kural 617 · Manly Effort

மடியுளாள் மாமுகடி என்ப மடியிலான் தாளுளான் தாமரையி னாள்.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

In sluggishness is seen misfortune's lurid form, the wise declare; Where man unslothful toils, she of the lotus flower is there!

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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