Thirukkural 1227 in English
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Tamil original
காலை அரும்பிப் பகலெல்லாம் போதாகி
மாலை மலரும்இந் நோய்.
Transliteration
Kaalai Arumpip Pakalellaam Podhaaki
Maalai Malarumin Noi
Modern English
“Her longing begins as a small feeling in the morning, grows through the day, and reaches its fullest strength by evening.”
Modern Interpretation
Her longing begins as a small feeling in the morning, grows through the day, and reaches its fullest strength by evening. Missing someone can build quietly during busy hours and become overwhelming when the day grows still.
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Modern Plain English
Her longing begins as a small feeling in the morning, grows through the day, and reaches its fullest strength by evening.
Poetic Couplet (Bharati)
Budding at dawn burgeoning all day This disease blooms in evening gay
G.U. Pope Translation
My grief at morn a bud, all day an opening flower,Full-blown expands in evening hour
Classical Meaning (Drew & Lazarus)
This malady buds forth in the morning, expands all day long and blossoms in the evening
Tamil commentary
காதல் துன்பமாகிய இப்பூ, காலையில் அரும்புகிறது; பகலில் முதிர்கிறது; மாலைப்பொழுதில் மலர்ந்து விடுகிறது.
Chapter 123
More from Lamentations at Eventide
பொழுதுகண்டு இரங்கல்
Bless you! you are not eventide But killing dart to wedded bride!
Kural 1222Hail sad eventide dim and grim Has your mate like mine, cruel whim!
Kural 1223Wet eve came pale and trembling then Now it makes bold with growing pain
Kural 1224Lover away, comes eventide Like slayer to field of homicide
Kural 1225What good have I done to morning And what evil to this evening?
Kural 1226Evening pangs I have not known When my lord nev'r left me alone
Kural 1227Budding at dawn burgeoning all day This disease blooms in evening gay
Kural 1228A deadly arm, this shepherd's flute Hails flaming eve and slays my heart
Kural 1229Deluding eve if it prolongs The whole town will suffer love-pangs
Kural 1230Thinking of him whose quest is wealth My life outlives the twilight stealth