Thirukkural 1269 in English
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Tamil original
ஒருநாள் எழுநாள்போல் செல்லும்சேண் சென்றார்
வருநாள்வைத்து ஏங்கு பவர்க்கு.
Transliteration
Orunaal Ezhunaalpol Sellumsen Sendraar
Varunaalvaiththu Engu Pavarkku
Modern English
“For someone waiting anxiously, one day can feel as long as a whole week.”
Modern Interpretation
For someone waiting anxiously, one day can feel as long as a whole week. The hours before a distant partner's arrival may seem to move far more slowly than usual.
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Modern Plain English
For someone waiting anxiously, one day can feel as long as a whole week.
Poetic Couplet (Bharati)
One day seems as seven to those Who yearn return of distant spouse
G.U. Pope Translation
One day will seem like seven to those who watch and yearnFor that glad day when wanderers from afar return
Classical Meaning (Drew & Lazarus)
To those who suffer waiting for the day of return of their distant lovers one day is as long as seven days
Tamil commentary
தொலைதூரம் சென்று தன் கணவன் வரும் நாளை எண்ணி வருந்தும் பெண்களுக்கு ஒருநாள் பலநாள் போல நெடிதாகத் தோன்றும்.
Chapter 127
More from Mutual Desire
அவர்வயின் விதும்பல்
My eyes are dim lustre-bereft Worn fingers count days since he left
Kural 1262Beauty pales and my bracelets slide; Why not forget him now, bright maid?
Kural 1263Will as guide he went to win Yet I live-to see him again
Kural 1264My heart in rapture heaves to see His retun with love to embrace me
Kural 1265Let me but gaze and gaze my spouse sallow on my soft shoulders files
Kural 1266Let my spouse return just a day Joy-drink shall drive my pain away
Kural 1267If my eye-like lord returneth Shall I sulk or clasp or do both?
Kural 1268May the king fight and win and give And with my wife I will feast this eve!
Kural 1269One day seems as seven to those Who yearn return of distant spouse
Kural 1270When her heart is broken, what is The good of meeting and love-embrace?