Kural 741<\/p>\n
A fortress is a strategic asset both to aggressors
\nand to those in fear who seek defense.
\nKural 742<\/p>\n
An effective fort has crystal-clear water, arable lands,
\na hill and lovely shaded woods.
\nKural 743<\/p>\n
The expert texts ordain four features for a fort’s barricades:
\nthat they be high, thick, solid and impregnable.
\nKural 744<\/p>\n
The ideal fortress is spacious, vulnerable in very few places
\nand, of itself, defies a determined foe’s designs to storm it.
\nKural 745<\/p>\n
A good garrison is hard to assail, amply provisioned
\nand accommodates inmates well.
\nKural 746<\/p>\n
The most formidable fortress, stocked with all needed goods,
\nstill needs men of good stock to fend off attack.
\nKural 747<\/p>\n
Whether by hurling artillery, tunneling beneath or encircling
\nto lay siege, it is impossible to capture a strong fort.
\nKural 748<\/p>\n
However forcefully assailants may press,
\na secure fortress promises allies defense and foes defeat.
\nKural 749<\/p>\n
A fortress earns greatness by enabling courageous defenders
\nto gloriously defeat the enemy at the battle’s very onset.
\nKural 750<\/p>\n
Whatever excellent qualities a fortress may possess,
\nit will be of no avail without men of excellent action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kural 741 A fortress is a strategic asset both to aggressors and to those in fear who seek defense. Kural 742 An effective fort has crystal-clear water, arable lands, a hill and lovely shaded woods. Kural 743 The expert texts ordain four features for a fort’s barricades: that they be high, thick, solid and impregnable. Kural 744 The ideal fortress is spacious, vulnerable in very few places and, of itself, defies a determined foe’s designs to storm it. Kural 745 A good garrison is hard to assail, amply provisioned and accommodates inmates well. Kural 746 The most formidable fortress, stocked <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tirukural","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}