Thirukkural 1217 in English
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Tamil original
நனவினால் நல்காக் கொடியார் கனவனால்
என்எம்மைப் பீழிப் பது.
Transliteration
Nanavinaal Nalkaak Kotiyaar Kanavanaal
Enemmaip Peezhip Padhu
Modern English
“The beloved who gives her no affection while awake still appears in her dreams and causes pain, so she asks why.”
Modern Interpretation
The beloved who gives her no affection while awake still appears in her dreams and causes pain, so she asks why. Dreaming about someone who will not answer your messages can reopen the hurt you tried to hide.
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Modern Plain English
The beloved who gives her no affection while awake still appears in her dreams and causes pain, so she asks why.
Poetic Couplet (Bharati)
Awake he throws my overtures Adream, ah cruel! he tortures!
G.U. Pope Translation
The cruel one, in waking hour, who all ungracious seems,Why should he thus torment my soul in nightly dreams
Classical Meaning (Drew & Lazarus)
The cruel one who would not favour me in my wakefulness, what right has he to torture me in my dreams?
Tamil commentary
நேரில் வந்து அன்பு செய்யாத இந்தக் கொடிய மனிதர் கனவில் மட்டும் நாளும் வந்து என்னை வருத்துவது ஏன்?
Chapter 122
More from The Visions of the Night
கனவுநிலை உரைத்தல்
How shall I feast this dream-vision That brings the beloved's love-mission?
Kural 1212I beg these fish-like dark eyes sleep To tell my lover how life I keep
Kural 1213In wakeful hours who sees me not I meet in dreams and linger yet
Kural 1214In dreams I enjoy his love-bliss Who in wakeful hours I miss
Kural 1215Dream-sight of him delights at once Awake-What of seeing him -hence
Kural 1216If wakeful hours come to nought My lov'r in dreams would nev'r depart
Kural 1217Awake he throws my overtures Adream, ah cruel! he tortures!
Kural 1218Asleep he embraces me fast; Awake he enters quick my heart
Kural 1219In dreams who don't discern lovers Rue their missing in wakeful hours
Kural 1220The townsmen say he left me thus In dreams failing to see him close