Thirukkural 1183 in English
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Tamil original
சாயலும் நாணும் அவர்கொண்டார் கைம்மாறா
நோயும் பசலையும் தந்து.
Transliteration
Saayalum Naanum Avarkontaar Kaimmaaraa
Noyum Pasalaiyum Thandhu
Modern English
“He took my beauty and shyness and left me love-sickness and pallor in return.”
Modern Interpretation
He took my beauty and shyness and left me love-sickness and pallor in return. After someone leaves, the sadness can change how you look and how freely you carry yourself.
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Modern Plain English
He took my beauty and shyness and left me love-sickness and pallor in return.
Poetic Couplet (Bharati)
He seized my beauty and modesty Leaving pangs and Pallor to me
G.U. Pope Translation
Of comeliness and shame he me bereft,While pain and sickly hue, in recompense, he left
Classical Meaning (Drew & Lazarus)
He has taken (away) my beauty and modesty, and given me instead disease and sallowness
Tamil commentary
அவர் என்னைப் பிரிகிறபோதே உள்ளத் துன்பத்தையும் பசலையையும் எனக்குக் கொடுத்துவிட்டு அவற்றுக்கு ஈடாக என் அழகையும் வெட்கத்தையம் கொண்டு போய்விட்டார்.
Chapter 119
More from The Pallid Hue
பசப்புறு பருவரல்
My lover's parting, I allowed Whom to complain my hue pallid?
Kural 1182Claiming it is begot through him Pallor creeps and rides over my frame
Kural 1183He seized my beauty and modesty Leaving pangs and Pallor to me
Kural 1184He is my thought, his praise my theme Yet this pallor steals over my frame
Kural 1185My lover departed me there And pallor usurped my body here
Kural 1186Just as darkness waits for light-off Pallor looks for lover's arms-off
Kural 1187From his embrace I turned a nonce This pallor swallowed me at once
Kural 1188On my pallor they cast a slur But none says \"lo he parted her\"
Kural 1189Let all my body become pale If he who took my leave fares well
Kural 1190Let people call me all pallid But my lover let them not deride