KURAL 15

Keduppathooung kettarkuch chaarvaaimatr trange

eduppathooum ellam mazhai

Split: koduppaduvum kettarkuch chaarvai matru aange

eduppathuvum, ellam mazhai

Want of rain spells ruin; suffeciency of it in turn ,

will lead to renewed prosperity.

It is the absence of rain that ruins and rain again that aids the ruined land to rise.