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Thirukkural 1318

Chapter 132: புலவி நுணுக்கம் (Feigned Anger) · Love

Kural 1318

தும்முச் செறுப்ப அழுதாள் நுமர்உள்ளல்
எம்மை மறைத்திரோ என்று.

Thummuch Cheruppa Azhudhaal Numarullal
Emmai Maraiththiro Endru

And so next time I checked my sneeze; She forthwith wept and cried,(That woman difficult to please), 'Your thoughts from me you hide'

Meaning

When I suppressed my sneezing, she wept saying, "I suppose you (did so) to hide from me your own people's remembrance of you".

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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