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Tiru Valluvar is a Pukka Hindu is proved by THREE more points given below: 1.He says Pujas will stop if there is no water; Hindus only use water for Puja; note the Sanskrit word he used Puusanai- Puuja;  When he talks about daily Puja it can mean only Hindu temples where Abishekam takes place or Brahmins who needs water at least three times a day to do their oblations; it may mean any devotee who takes ritual bath in the temple tank and enters the temple.2. He talks about Indra Festival here; Manimekalai explains more on this point. When Indra Viza is discontinued God/Indra becomes angry and punishes the earth. 3. In verse 19 he used two Sanskrit words DHAANAM, TAVAM; they are repeated in Mahabharata (Gita) and Ramayan  hundreds of  times. Notice the order of words daanam tavam.

Following Translations are used:

1.Himalayan Academy- HA

2.GU Pope – GUP. Year 1886

3.Suddhananda Bharathiyar- SB

4.A Aranganatha Mudaliyar – ANM+2 and B.L. Aranganatha iyer and R. Srinivasa Desikan. Year 1933

5.EVS Publishers, Singapore- EVS. Year 1986

6.S M Diaz, I G of Police- SMD Year 2000

H A Popley – HAP (not full book) Year 1931

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Tirukkural

16.Not even a blade of grass will rustle, if rain drops not from on high-ANM

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16.If the clouds do not shed drops of rain, even blades of grass cannot shoot up- SMD

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16.
If from the clouds no drops of rain are shed.
‘Tis rare to see green herb lift up its head.
If no drop falls from the clouds, not even the green blade of grass will be seen. (GUP)

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16.If no drop of rain falls from the clouds , not even  a blade

of green grass can be seen—EVS

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16.No grassy blade its head will rear,
If from the cloud no drop appear SB

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Verse 16 Unless raindrops fall from the sky, Not even green grass will be seen rising from the earth. (HA)

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16. விசும்பின் துளிவீழின் அல்லால்மற் றாங்கே
பசும்புல் தலைகாண்பு அரிது

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17.Even the treasures of the mighty ocean would diminish, if the clouds should cease to suck its waters and give them back in refreshing showers of rain.-ANM

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17.If the clouds produced by the sea fail in their bounty,

Even the wealth of sea will shrink- SMD

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17.
If clouds restrain their gifts and grant no rain,
The treasures fail in ocean’s wide domain.
Even the wealth of the wide sea will be diminished, if the cloud that has drawn (its waters) up gives them not back again (in rain). (GUP)

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17.Even the treasures of the mighty ocean would diminish , if the clouds should cease to suck its waters and give them back in refreshing showers of rain. —EVS

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17.The ocean’s wealth will waste away,
Except the cloud its stores repay.        SB
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Verse 17 The nature of oceans, though vast, would diminish, If clouds ceased to take up water and give back rain’s gifts. (HA)

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17. நெடுங்கடலும் தன்நீர்மை குன்றும் தடிந்தெழிலி
தான்நல்கா தாகி விடின்

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18.Were the heavens to withhold their waters, there would be neither festivals, nor daily worship of thee gods- ANM

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18.If the rains fail there will be  neither festivals

Nor rituals, for the Gods themselves- SMD

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18.
If heaven grow dry, with feast and offering never more,
Will men on earth the heavenly ones adore.
If the heaven dry up, neither yearly festivals, nor daily worship will be offered in this world, to the celestials. (GUP)

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18.If rains fail festivals of the year  and the daily worship of the gods will cease- EVS

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18.The earth, beneath a barren sky,
Would offerings for the gods deny.        SB
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Verse 18 Should the heavens dry up, worship here of the heavenly ones In festivals and daily rites would wither. (HA)

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18. சிறப்பொடு பூசனை செல்லாது வானம்
வறக்குமேல் வானோர்க்கும் ஈண்டு

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19.if it rains not there will be no alms giving and austerities in this wide world- ANM

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19.Alms to the needy and penance for spiritual uplift cannot be sustained

If the heavens will not give of their bounty- SMD

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19.
If heaven its watery treasures ceases to dispense,
Through the wide world cease gifts, and deeds of ‘penitence’.
If rain fall not, penance and alms-deeds will not dwell within this spacious world. (GUP)

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19.Charity and devotional practices will not be observed in the world unless rain falls- EVS

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19.Were heaven above to fail below
Nor alms nor penance earth would show.      SB

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Verse 19 Unless the heavens grant their gifts, neither the giver’s generosity Nor the ascetic’s aloofness will grace this wide world. (HA)

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19. தானம் தவம்இரண்டும் தங்கா வியன்உலகம்
வானம் வழங்கா தெனின்.

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20.All functions and concerns of life cease without water, and there will be no flow of water without rain. ANM

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20.Even as life on earth cannot sustain without water

Virtue too depends ultimately on rains- SMD

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When water fails, functions of nature cease, you say;
Thus when rain fails, no men can walk in ‘duty’s ordered way’.
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. (GUP)

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20.Duties of life cannot be performed by any person in the absence of water; there is no flow of water in the absence of rain -EVS

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20.Water is life that comes from rain
Sans rain our duties go in vain.         SB

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Verse 20 No life on earth can exist without water, And the ceaseless flow of that water cannot exist without rain. (HA)

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20. நீர்இன்று அமையாது உலகெனின் யார்யார்க்கும்
வான்இன்று அமையாது ஒழுக்கு

–subham—Tags – Tiru Valluvar, Pukka Hindu, Tiruk Kural chapter two, rain, couplets 16-20, Tirukkural Encyclopaedia, Puja Dhanam, Tavam, Sanskrit words,Water