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Thirukkural 1170

Chapter 117: படர்மெலிந் திரங்கல் (Complainings) · Love

Kural 1170

உள்ளம்போன்று உள்வழிச் செல்கிற்பின் வெள்ளநீர்
நீந்தல மன்னோஎன் கண்.

Ullampondru Ulvazhich Chelkirpin Vellaneer
Neendhala Mannoen Kan

When eye of mine would as my soul go forth to him, It knows not how through floods of its own tears to swim

Meaning

Could mine eyes travel like my thoughts to the abode (of my absent lord), they would not swim in this flood of tears.

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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