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Thirukkural 1276

Chapter 128: குறிப்பறிவுறுத்தல் (The Reading of the Signs) · Love

Kural 1276

பெரிதாற்றிப் பெட்பக் கலத்தல் அரிதாற்றி
அன்பின்மை சூழ்வ துடைத்து.

Peridhaatrip Petpak Kalaththal Aridhaatri
Anpinmai Soozhva Thutaiththu

While lovingly embracing me, his heart is only grieved:It makes me think that I again shall live of love bereaved

Meaning

The embrace that fills me with comfort and gladness is capable of enduring (my former) sorrow and meditating on his want of love.

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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