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Thirukkural 1313

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Kural 1313

கோட்டுப்பூச் சூடினும் காயும் ஒருத்தியைக்
காட்டிய சூடினீர் என்று.

Kottup Pooch Chootinum Kaayum
Oruththiyaik Kaattiya Sootineer Endru

I wreathed with flowers one day my brow, The angry tempest lowers; She cries, 'Pray, for what woman now Do you put on your flowers?'

Meaning

Even if I were adorned with a garland of branch-flowers, she would say I did so to show it to another woman.

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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