துளியின்மை ஞாலத்திற்கு எற்றற்றே வேந்தன் அளியின்மை வாழும் உயிர்க்கு.
Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition
Read Kural 557 ↗Kural 557
As lack of rain to thirsty lands beneath, Is lack of grace in kings to all that breathe.
G. U. Pope · 1886 · Public domain. Historical wording is preserved.
Source record
Tiruvalluvar; Tamil digital dataset Senkanthal.org
MIT (explicit dataset permission in repository README); underlying classical Tamil public domain
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