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Allarpattu Aatraadhu Azhudhakan NeerandreSelvaththaith Theykkum Patai

His people's tears of sorrow past endurance, are not theySharp instruments to wear the monarch's wealth away

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Will not the tears, shed by a people who cannot endure the oppression which they suffer (from their king), become a saw to waste away his wealth ?