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Kural 930

Kural 930 · Not Drinking Palm-Wine

கள்ளுண்ணாப் போழ்திற் களித்தானைக் காணுங்கால் உள்ளான்கொல் உண்டதன் சோர்வு.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

When one, in sober interval, a drunken man espies, Does he not think, 'Such is my folly in my revelries'?

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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