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Thirukkural 1155

Chapter 116: பிரிவு ஆற்றாமை (Separation unendurable) · Love

Kural 1155

ஓம்பின் அமைந்தார் பிரிவோம்பல் மற்றவர்
நீங்கின் அரிதால் புணர்வு.

Ompin Amaindhaar Pirivompal Matravar
Neengin Aridhaal Punarvu

If you would guard my life, from going him restrainWho fills my life! If he depart, hardly we meet again

Meaning

If you would save (my life), delay the departure of my destined (husband); for if he departs, intercourse will become impossible.

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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