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Kural 772

Kural 772 · Military Spirit

கான முயலெய்த அம்பினில் யானை பிழைத்தவேல் ஏந்தல் இனிது.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

Who aims at elephant, though dart should fail, has greater praise. Than he who woodland hare with winged arrow slays.

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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