THE KURAL
16. Even grass will cease to grow if the showers from above should cease to fall.
17. Even the mighty ocean would reek with corruption if the heavens should cease to suck its waters and render them back to it.
18. Sacrifices will not be offered to the Gods nor Feasts be celebrated on earth if the heavens are dried up.
19. Neither charity nor austerities will abide on the wide earth if the heavens should hold back their showers.
20. Nothing on earth can go on without water : so even right conduct itself depends ultimately on rain.
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