The Kural
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குறிப்பறிவுறுத்தல்
Kurals 1271–1280 of the Thirukkural, in the book of Love (இன்பத்துப்பால்).
கரப்பினுங் கையிகந் தொல்லாநின் உண்கண்
உரைக்கல் உறுவதொன் றுண்டு.
Thou hid'st it, yet thine eye, disdaining all restraint,
Something, I know not, what, would utter of complaint.
G.U. Pope, 1886
In today's words: You may try to hide your feelings, but your eyes break through and tell me.
Open in the appகண்ணிறைந்த காரிகைக் காம்பேர்தோட் பேதைக்குப்
பெண்நிறைந்த நீர்மை பெரிது.
The simple one whose beauty fills mine eye, whose shoulders curve
Like bambu stem, hath all a woman's modest sweet reserve.
G.U. Pope, 1886
In today's words: Her beauty fills my eyes, her arms are graceful as bamboo and her innocence is beyond compare.
Open in the appமணியில் திகழ்தரு நூல்போல் மடந்தை
அணியில் திகழ்வதொன்று உண்டு.
As through the crystal beads is seen the thread on which they're strung
So in her beauty gleams some thought cannot find a tongue.
G.U. Pope, 1886
In today's words: There's something hidden in her beauty, like the thread you can just see through a string of beads.
Open in the appமுகைமொக்குள் உள்ளது நாற்றம்போல் பேதை
நகைமொக்குள் உள்ளதொன் றுண்டு.
As fragrance in the opening bud, some secret lies
Concealed in budding smile of this dear damsel's eyes.
G.U. Pope, 1886
In today's words: There's something in her shy smile, like the fragrance hidden in an unopened bud.
Open in the appசெறிதொடி செய்திறந்த கள்ளம் உறுதுயர்
தீர்க்கும் மருந்தொன்று உடைத்து.
The secret wiles of her with thronging armlets decked,
Are medicines by which my rising grief is checked.
G.U. Pope, 1886
In today's words: Her slipping away, with a meaningful look, holds a cure for my deep sorrow.
Open in the appபெரிதாற்றிப் பெட்பக் கலத்தல் அரிதாற்றி
அன்பின்மை சூழ்வ துடைத்து.
While lovingly embracing me, his heart is only grieved:
It makes me think that I again shall live of love bereaved.
G.U. Pope, 1886
In today's words: An embrace that comforts me so much also hints at the pain of his coming absence.
Open in the appதண்ணந் துறைவன் தணந்தமை நம்மினும்
முன்னம் உணர்ந்த வளை.
My severance from the lord of this cool shore,
My very armlets told me long before.
G.U. Pope, 1886
In today's words: My bangles knew before I did that the lord of the cool shore had drifted away from me.
Open in the appநெருநற்றுச் சென்றார்எம் காதலர் யாமும்
எழுநாளேம் மேனி பசந்து.
My loved one left me, was it yesterday?
Days seven my pallid body wastes away!
G.U. Pope, 1886
In today's words: My love left only yesterday, yet I've been pale for a week.
Open in the appதொடிநோக்கி மென்தோளும் நோக்கி அடிநோக்கி
அஃதாண் டவள்செய் தது.
She viewed her tender arms, she viewed the armlets from them slid;
She viewed her feet: all this the lady did.
G.U. Pope, 1886
In today's words: She glanced at her bangles, her slender arms and her feet; that look said everything.
Open in the appபெண்ணினால் பெண்மை உடைத்தென்ப கண்ணினால்
காமநோய் சொல்லி இரவு.
To show by eye the pain of love, and for relief to pray,
Is womanhood's most womanly device, men say.
G.U. Pope, 1886
In today's words: Showing love's pain through the eyes and pleading silently is a woman's rare grace.
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