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Thirukkural 1320

Chapter 132: புலவி நுணுக்கம் (Feigned Anger) · Love

Kural 1320

நினைத்திருந்து நோக்கினும் காயும் அனைத்துநீர்
யாருள்ளி நோக்கினீர் என்று.

Ninaiththirundhu Nokkinum Kaayum Anaiththuneer
Yaarulli Nokkineer Endru

I silent sat, but thought the more, And gazed on her Then sheCried out, 'While thus you eye me o'er, Tell me whose form you see'

Meaning

Even when I look on her contemplating (her beauty), she is displeased and says, "With whose thought have you (thus) looked on my person?"

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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