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Those who give food give life to living beings
who cannot live without water.
Food is first for all living things, made of food,
and because food is but soil and water mingled together,
those who bring water into fields
create living beings and life in this world.
who cannot live without water.
Food is first for all living things, made of food,
and because food is but soil and water mingled together,
those who bring water into fields
create living beings and life in this world.
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Purananuru, No. 18, lines 18-23
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As part of my winter reading, I came across these lines from a Tamil poet to a Pandya king in the first century CE. A good introduction.
