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Thirukkural 20

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

Kural 20

நீர்இன்று அமையாது உலகெனின் யார்யார்க்கும்
வான்இன்று அமையாது ஒழுக்கு.

Neerindru Amaiyaadhu Ulakenin Yaaryaarkkum
Vaanindru Amaiyaadhu Ozhukku

When water fails, functions of nature cease, you say; Thus when rain fails, no men can walk in 'duty's ordered way'

Meaning

If it be said that the duties of life cannot be discharged by any person without water, so without rain there cannot be the flowing of water.

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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