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Thirukkural 1138

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

Kural 1138

நிறையரியர் மன்அளியர் என்னாது காமம்
மறையிறந்து மன்று படும்.

Niraiyariyar Manaliyar Ennaadhu Kaamam
Maraiyirandhu Mandru Patum

In virtue hard to move, yet very tender, too, are we; Love deems not so, would rend the veil, and court publicity

Meaning

Even the Lust (of women) transgresses its secrecy and appears in public, forgetting that they are too chaste and liberal (to be overcome by it).

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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