Purananuru # 018

Lake bank or land dam 

Poet advises the king to create lakes.

• You like a lion among the kings extending their territories!
• Be your life span expanding KOODI (1,00,00,000) years.
• You are the victorious king of oldest fertile village (Madurai) having fort and trench.
• Whether you want the bliss in other world or fame in this world I want to suggest a clue.
• You are the eligible man to attain.
• The body with life cannot live without food. The food we get where the land and water unit. If you do it in dry land that depends upon rain you can attain.

You the king ferocious in war! Avoid and do this.

• Where the land bends there you make a dam. That is way to give life everybody by which you can attain fame you need.

Poem by: KUDAPULAVIYANAR

Poem to: PAANDIYAN NEDUNJEZIYAN

Aim: advice    

Refer the original poem in Tamil with annotation