The Living Kural
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Kural 672

Kural 672 · Modes of Action

தூங்குக தூங்கிச் செயற்பால தூங்கற்க தூங்காது செய்யும் வினை.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

Slumber when sleepy work's in hand: beware Thou slumber not when action calls for sleepless care!

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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