{"id":216,"date":"2026-10-25T15:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T15:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/?post_type=verse&#038;p=216"},"modified":"2026-10-25T15:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T15:15:07","slug":"kural-14","status":"publish","type":"verse","link":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/verse\/kural-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Kural 14 \u00b7 \u0b8f\u0bb0\u0bbf\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0b89\u0bb4\u0bbe\u0b85\u0bb0\u0bcd \u0b89\u0bb4\u0bb5\u0bb0\u0bcd \u0baa\u0bc1\u0baf\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0b8e\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0ba9\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u0b8f\u0bb0\u0bbf\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0b89\u0bb4\u0bbe\u0b85\u0bb0\u0bcd \u0b89\u0bb4\u0bb5\u0bb0\u0bcd \u0baa\u0bc1\u0baf\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0b8e\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0ba9\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd<br \/>\n\u0bb5\u0bbe\u0bb0\u0bbf \u0bb5\u0bb3\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bc1\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bbf\u0b95\u0bcd \u0b95\u0bbe\u0bb2\u0bcd.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the wealth that the cloud gives has dwindled, farmers will not even take up the plough 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the heavens are dried up.","word_meanings":"\u0b8f\u0bb0\u0bbf\u0ba9\u0bcd | with the plough\n\u0b89\u0bb4\u0bbe\u0b85\u0bb0\u0bcd | will not plough\n\u0b89\u0bb4\u0bb5\u0bb0\u0bcd | farmers\n\u0baa\u0bc1\u0baf\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0b8e\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0ba9\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd | the so-called cloud\n\u0bb5\u0bbe\u0bb0\u0bbf | income, bounty, wealth\n\u0bb5\u0bb3\u0bae\u0bcd \u0b95\u0bc1\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bbf\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bbe\u0bb2\u0bcd | when the abundance dwindles","meaning_ta":"\u0bae\u0bc7\u0b95\u0bae\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd \u0bb5\u0bb3\u0bae\u0bcd \u0b95\u0bc1\u0bb1\u0bc8\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bc1\u0bb5\u0bbf\u0b9f\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bbe\u0bb2\u0bcd, \u0b89\u0bb4\u0bb5\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bcd \u0b8f\u0bb0\u0bc8\u0b95\u0bcd \u0b95\u0bca\u0ba3\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bc1 \u0ba8\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bc8 \u0b89\u0bb4\u0bb5\u0bc7 \u0bae\u0bbe\u0b9f\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bbe\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bcd.","meaning_en":"When the wealth that the cloud gives has dwindled, farmers will 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But Valluvar does not describe the farmer's suffering directly. He tells us what the farmer will not do: pick up the plough. The meaning is deep. Ploughing is an act of faith, preparing the land in the hope of rain. When that hope breaks, the farmer's hand will not go to the plough.\n\nThe phrase 'puyal ennum vaari' speaks of the rain-cloud as wealth or income. The word 'vaari' can mean income and also the sea; here it means the bounty the cloud gives. For the farmer, rain is the starting point of the year's earnings. If it falls short, effort in the field falls with it.\n\nOne subtle point is the chain of consequence. If ploughing stops, food stops, and when food stops the whole society stops. All other trades depend, on one day or another, on the farmer. Valluvar will later give an entire chapter to farming and declare that only those who live by the plough truly live.\n\nMany farmers today, when the rains fail, sink into debt and leave their land. 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When the month of Aadi began, his house filled with bustle. 'Aadip pattam thedi vidhai', the village saying goes: look for the Aadi season and sow. It is believed that seeds sown in Aadi give a good harvest. But that year Aadi began and the sky stayed empty.\n\nThe day of Aadi Perukku arrived. On that day, women tie fresh yellow threads on the riverbank, offer black beads and bangles, and worship mother Kaveri. That year very little water flowed in the river. Velappan stood hesitating, his plough on his shoulder. \"What is the use of ploughing in a year the rain does not come?\" he asked his wife Amudha. She said nothing.\n\nJust then the village elder Subbiah came by. \"Velappa, you hold a plough in your hand. If you put it down, the whole village will do the same. If you stop ploughing today, tomorrow there will be no rice in any house,\" he said. There was no scolding in his words, only warmth.\n\nThat day Velappan ploughed a little of his land and prayed to the Kaveri. The next week rain that had fallen on the western hills came down the river in flood. The land he had ploughed was the first to drink and be ready for seed. Many others had to prepare their fields late.\n\nFrom then on the village respected Velappan as 'the man who takes up the plough in Aadi with faith'.","reflection_ta":"\u0b89\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bcd \u0baa\u0ba3\u0bbf\u0baf\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0b8e\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4 \u0b87\u0b9f\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0ba8\u0bbf\u0bb2\u0bc8\u0bae\u0bc8 \u0ba8\u0bbf\u0b9a\u0bcd\u0b9a\u0baf\u0bae\u0bb1\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0ba4\u0bbe\u0b95\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd \u0b89\u0b9f\u0ba9\u0bc7 \u0bae\u0bc1\u0baf\u0bb1\u0bcd\u0b9a\u0bbf\u0baf\u0bc8 \u0ba8\u0bbf\u0bb1\u0bc1\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bbf\u0bb5\u0bbf\u0b9f\u0bc1\u0b95\u0bbf\u0bb1\u0bc0\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bcd?","reflection_en":"Where in your own work do you stop trying the moment the conditions turn uncertain?","image_prompt":"A farmer standing at a Kaveri river bank at Aadi Perukku holding a wooden plough on his shoulder while women in saris offer flowers and yellow threads to the river, dry fields behind him. Warm palm-leaf manuscript and Tanjore-painting inspired style, ivory, ochre, copper and deep teal palette, ornate gold border, no text or letters in the image."},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verse\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verse"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/verse"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verse\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1550,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verse\/216\/revisions\/1550"}],"acf:post":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adhigaram\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kural_section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kural_section?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"literary_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/literary_category?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"author_poet","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/author_poet?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"thinai_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thinai_type?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"work_title","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/work_title?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}