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They who missed the garland are like those who missed ambrosia.\n\nThe comparison is well chosen: the gods are seekers of ambrosia, and here the garland was theirs.\n\nKali comes, the story's first adversary, and the phrase his waters shows him as a flood: evil is a force, not merely a personal fault.","story_title_ta":"\u0ba4\u0bc7\u0bb5\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bcd, \u0b95\u0bb2\u0bbf \u0b8e\u0ba4\u0bbf\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0bb5\u0bb0\u0b95\u0bcd \u0b95\u0ba3\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0ba4\u0bc1","story_ta":"\u0b95\u0bbe\u0ba3\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bae\u0bcd: \u0b9a\u0bc1\u0baf\u0bae\u0bcd\u0bb5\u0bb0 \u0b95\u0bbe\u0ba3\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bae\u0bcd","story_title_en":"","story_en":"","reflection_ta":"\u0ba4\u0bc0\u0bae\u0bc8 \u0b92\u0bb0\u0bc1 \u0ba4\u0ba9\u0bbf\u0bae\u0ba9\u0bbf\u0ba4\u0b95\u0bcd \u0b95\u0bc1\u0bb1\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bae\u0bcd \u0bae\u0b9f\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0bb2; \u0b85\u0ba4\u0bc1 \u0b92\u0bb0\u0bc1 \u0b9a\u0b95\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bbf.","reflection_en":"Evil is not only a personal fault; it is a force.","image_prompt":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verse\/5622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verse"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/verse"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verse\/5622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6182,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verse\/5622\/revisions\/6182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kural_section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kural_section?post=5622"},{"taxonomy":"literary_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/literary_category?post=5622"},{"taxonomy":"author_poet","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/author_poet?post=5622"},{"taxonomy":"thinai_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thinai_type?post=5622"},{"taxonomy":"work_title","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/work_title?post=5622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}