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Kural 929

Kural 929 · Not Drinking Palm-Wine

களித்தானைக் காரணம் காட்டுதல் கீழ்நீர்க் குளித்தானைத் தீத்துரீஇ அற்று.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

Like him who, lamp in hand, would seek one sunk beneath the wave. Is he who strives to sober drunken man with reasonings grave.

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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