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Thirukkural 1316

Chapter 132: புலவி நுணுக்கம் (Feigned Anger) · Love

Kural 1316

உள்ளினேன் என்றேன்மற் றென்மறந்தீர் என்றென்னைப்
புல்லாள் புலத்தக் கனள்.

Ullinen Endrenmar Renmarandheer Endrennaip
Pullaal Pulaththak Kanal

'Each day I called to mind your charms,' 'O, then, you had forgot,'She cried, and then her opened arms, Forthwith embraced me not

Meaning

When I said I had remembered her, she said I had forgotten her and relaxing her embrace, began to feign dislike.

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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