The Living Kural
Virtue / CHAPTER 2

Kural 11

Kural 11 · The Blessing of Rain

வான்நின்று உலகம் வழங்கி வருதலால் தான்அமிழ்தம் என்றுணரற் பாற்று.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

The world its course maintains through life that rain unfailing gives; Thus rain is known the true ambrosial food of all that lives.

G. U. Pope · 1886 · Public domain. Historical wording is preserved.

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Tiruvalluvar; Tamil digital dataset Senkanthal.org

MIT (explicit dataset permission in repository README); underlying classical Tamil public domain

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