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Kural 787

Kural 787 · Friendship

அழிவி னவைநீக்கி ஆறுய்த்து அழிவின்கண் அல்லல் உழப்பதாம் நட்பு.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

Friendship from ruin saves, in way of virtue keeps; In troublous time, it weeps with him who weeps.

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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