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Kural 774

Kural 774 · Military Spirit

கைவேல் களிற்றொடு போக்கி வருபவன் மெய்வேல் பறியா நகும்.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

At elephant he hurls the dart in hand; for weapon pressed, He laughs and plucks the javelin from his wounded breast.

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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