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Thirukkural 13

Chapter 2: வான்சிறப்பு (The Blessing of Rain) · Virtue

Kural 13

விண்இன்று பொய்ப்பின் விரிநீர் வியனுலகத்து
உள்நின்று உடற்றும் பசி.

Vinindru Poippin Virineer Viyanulakaththu
Ulnindru Utatrum Pasi

If clouds, that promised rain, deceive, and in the sky remain, Famine, sore torment, stalks o'er earth's vast ocean-girdled plain

Meaning

If the cloud, withholding rain, deceive (our hopes) hunger will long distress the sea-girt spacious world.

Plain English meaning from the 19th-century prose translation by W. H. Drew and John Lazarus. The verse above is G. U. Pope's translation (1886).

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