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Kural 687

Kural 687 · The Envoy

கடனறிந்து காலங் கருதி இடனறிந்து எண்ணி உரைப்பான் தலை.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

He is the best who knows what's due, the time considered well, The place selects, then ponders long ere he his errand tell.

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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