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Kural 841

Kural 841 · Ignorance

அறிவின்மை இன்மையுள் இன்மை பிறிதின்மை இன்மையா வையா துலகு.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

Want of knowledge, 'mid all wants the sorest want we deem; Want of other things the world will not as want esteem.

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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