Thirukkural 1265 in English

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Tamil original

காண்கமன் கொண்கனைக் கண்ணாரக் கண்டபின்
நீங்கும்என் மென்தோள் பசப்பு.

Transliteration

Kaankaman Konkanaik Kannaarak Kantapin
Neengumen Mendhol Pasappu

Modern English

“Seeing the person we love can ease the visible signs of longing and sadness.”

Modern Interpretation

Seeing the person we love can ease the visible signs of longing and sadness. A reunion may restore the energy and color that separation took away.

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Modern Plain English

Seeing the person we love can ease the visible signs of longing and sadness.

Poetic Couplet (Bharati)

Let me but gaze and gaze my spouse sallow on my soft shoulders files

G.U. Pope Translation

O let me see my spouse again and sate these longing eyes!That instant from my wasted frame all pallor flies

Classical Meaning (Drew & Lazarus)

May I look on my lover till I am satisfied and thereafter will vanish the sallowness of my slender shoulders

என் கண்கள் முழுக்க என் கணவரை நான் காண்பேனாகுக; அவரைக் கண்டபின் என் மெல்லிய தோளின் வாடிய நிறம் தானாக நீங்கும்.

Chapter 127

அவர்வயின் விதும்பல்

My eyes are dim lustre-bereft Worn fingers count days since he left

Beauty pales and my bracelets slide; Why not forget him now, bright maid?

Will as guide he went to win Yet I live-to see him again

My heart in rapture heaves to see His retun with love to embrace me

Let me but gaze and gaze my spouse sallow on my soft shoulders files

Let my spouse return just a day Joy-drink shall drive my pain away

If my eye-like lord returneth Shall I sulk or clasp or do both?

May the king fight and win and give And with my wife I will feast this eve!

One day seems as seven to those Who yearn return of distant spouse

When her heart is broken, what is The good of meeting and love-embrace?