Thirukkural 1311 in English

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Tamil original

பெண்ணியலார் எல்லாரும் கண்ணின் பொதுஉண்பர்
நண்ணேன் பரத்தநின் மார்பு.

Transliteration

Penniyalaar Ellaarum Kannin Podhuunpar
Nannen Paraththanin Maarpu

Modern English

“She feels unable to embrace a partner who seeks every woman's attention, because love should feel personal rather than public.”

Modern Interpretation

She feels unable to embrace a partner who seeks every woman's attention, because love should feel personal rather than public. If someone openly flirts with everyone, the person who loves them may no longer feel their closeness is special.

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Modern Plain English

She feels unable to embrace a partner who seeks every woman's attention, because love should feel personal rather than public.

Poetic Couplet (Bharati)

I shrink to clasp you bosom lewd To the gaze of all ladies exposed

G.U. Pope Translation

From thy regard all womankind Enjoys an equal grace;O thou of wandering fickle mind, I shrink from thine embrace

Classical Meaning (Drew & Lazarus)

You are given to prostitution; all those who are born as womankind enjoy you with their eyes in an ordinary way I will not embrace you

Tamil commentary

பெண் விரும்பியே! நீ வீதி வழி வரும் குணங்கெட்ட பெண்கள் எல்லாரும் உன் மார்பைத் தம் கண்ணால் பொதுவாக உண்பர்; அதனால் அவர்களின் எச்சிலாகிய உன் மார்பை நான் இனிச் சேரேன்.

Chapter 132

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Kural 1311

I shrink to clasp you bosom lewd To the gaze of all ladies exposed

Kural 1312

He sneezed while we went on sulking Expecting me to say \"live long\"

Kural 1313

\"For which lady?\" she widely cries While I adorn myself with flowers

Kural 1314

\"I love you more than all\" I said \"Than whom, than whom?\" she sulked and chid

Kural 1315

\"In this life we won't part\" I told Her eyes at once with tears were filled

Kural 1316

I said I thought of you She left Her embrace crying \"Oft you forget\"

Kural 1317

I sneezed; she blessed; then changed and wept \"You sneezed now at which lady's thought?\"

Kural 1318

I repressed sneeze; she wept crying \"Your thoughts from me you are hiding\"

Kural 1319

I try to coax her and she remarks \"Your coaxing others thus this marks\"

Kural 1320

I think and gaze at her; she chides: \"On whom your thought just now abides?\"