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Neerindru Amaiyaadhu Ulakenin YaaryaarkkumVaanindru Amaiyaadhu Ozhukku

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

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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