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Thirukkural 1214

Chapter 122: கனவுநிலை உரைத்தல் (The Visions of the Night) · Love

Kural 1214

கனவினான் உண்டாகும் காமம் நனவினான்
நல்காரை நாடித் தரற்கு.

Kanavinaan Untaakum Kaamam Nanavinaan
Nalkaarai Naatith Thararku

Some pleasure I enjoy when him who loves not meIn waking hours, the vision searches out and makes me see

Meaning

There is pleasure in my dream, because in it I seek and obtain him who does not visit me in my wakefulness.

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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