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Kural 770

Kural 770 · The Excellence of an Army

நிலைமக்கள் சால உடைத்தெனினும் தானை தலைமக்கள் இல்வழி இல்.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

Though men abound, all ready for the war, No army is where no fit leaders are.

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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