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Thirukkural 1135

Chapter 114: நாணுத் துறவுரைத்தல் (The Abandonment of Reserve) · Love

Kural 1135

தொடலைக் குறுந்தொடி தந்தாள் மடலொடு
மாலை உழக்கும் துயர்.

Thotalaik Kurundhoti Thandhaal Matalotu
Maalai Uzhakkum Thuyar

The maid that slender armlets wears, like flowers entwined, Has brought me 'horse of palm,' and pangs of eventide

Meaning

She with the small garland-like bracelets has given me the palmyra horse and the sorrow that is endured at night.

Plain English meaning from the 19th-century prose translation by W. H. Drew and John Lazarus. The verse above is G. U. Pope's translation (1886).

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