Thirukkural 1313 in English
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Tamil original
கோட்டுப்பூச் சூடினும் காயும் ஒருத்தியைக்
காட்டிய சூடினீர் என்று.
Transliteration
Kottup Pooch Chootinum Kaayum
Oruththiyaik Kaattiya Sootineer Endru
English Translation
“\"For which lady?\" she widely cries While I adorn myself with flowers”
Plain-English meaning
Even if I were adorned with a garland of branch-flowers, she would say I did so to show it to another woman
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English Translation
\"For which lady?\" she widely cries While I adorn myself with flowers
G.U. Pope Translation
I wreathed with flowers one day my brow, The angry tempest lowers;She cries, 'Pray, for what woman now Do you put on your flowers?'
Plain-English Meaning
Even if I were adorned with a garland of branch-flowers, she would say I did so to show it to another woman
Tamil commentary
ஒரு மாற்றம் கருதி, ஒருமுறை, மரத்திலே மலர்ந்த பூவை மாலையாக்கிச் சூடினேன். அதற்கு அவள், நீர் விரும்பும் எவளுக்கோ அடையாளம் காட்டிச் சூடினீர் என்று சினந்து நின்றாள்.
Chapter 132
More from Feigned Anger
புலவி நுணுக்கம்
I shrink to clasp you bosom lewd To the gaze of all ladies exposed
Kural 1312He 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 1316I said I thought of you She left Her embrace crying \"Oft you forget\"
Kural 1317I sneezed; she blessed; then changed and wept \"You sneezed now at which lady's thought?\"
Kural 1318I repressed sneeze; she wept crying \"Your thoughts from me you are hiding\"
Kural 1319I try to coax her and she remarks \"Your coaxing others thus this marks\"
Kural 1320I think and gaze at her; she chides: \"On whom your thought just now abides?\"