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Thirukkural 1190

Chapter 119: பசப்புறு பருவரல் (The Pallid Hue) · Love

Kural 1190

பசப்பெனப் பேர்பெறுதல் நன்றே நயப்பித்தார்
நல்காமை தூற்றார் எனின்.

Pasappenap Perperudhal Nandre Nayappiththaar
Nalkaamai Thootraar Enin

'Tis well, though men deride me for my sickly hue of pain; If they from calling him unkind, who won my love, refrain

Meaning

It would be good to be said of me that I have turned sallow, if friends do not reproach with unkindness him who pleased me (then).

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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