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Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma

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Kural 1032: Tiruvalluvar on Agriculture and Farmers

February 15, 2022

A verse on the fundamental importance of farmers for everyone everywhere. With all good wishes to M. Manikandan and his film #kadaisivivasayi.

1032
Farmers sustain everyone not farming—they
Are the pin holding the world together

உழுவார் உலகத்தார்க் காணி அஃ தாற்றா
தெழுவாரை எல்லாம் பொறுத்து

From chapter 104, “Farming.”

Translated from the Tamil by Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma
THE KURAL: Tiruvalluvar’s Tirukkural
Beacon Press, Boston

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