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Tirrukural, the - Book 1 Rain
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Tirrukural, the - Book 1 Rain
11. Rain which sustains the world
Should be deemed life's elixir'
12. To the hungry, rain supplies
Both food and itself as drink'
13. Should rain fail, hunger will rack
The wide earth sea-girt.
14. Ploughmen will not Plough
If rain withholds its plenty.
15. It is rain which ruins men; it is also rain
Which lifts them up.
16. If raindrops drop dropping
There won't be a blade of grass.
17. Even the wide sea will be less its self
If the cloud depriving it meanly holds back.
18. If the heavens dry up, the very gods
Will lack festival and worship.
19. The vast world rainless, one may bid adieu
To charity and Penance.
20. If the world cannot do without water
Neither can aught without rain.