Thirukkural 1314 in English

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Tamil original

யாரினும் காதலம் என்றேனா ஊடினாள்
யாரினும் யாரினும் என்று.

Transliteration

Yaarinum Kaadhalam Endrenaa Ootinaal
Yaarinum Yaarinum Endru

Modern English

“Jealousy can turn reassurance into a comparison: saying, 'I love you more than anyone,' may make the listener ask who else is being compared.”

Modern Interpretation

Jealousy can turn reassurance into a comparison: saying, 'I love you more than anyone,' may make the listener ask who else is being compared. A careless attempt to praise one partner can therefore start a fresh quarrel.

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Modern Plain English

Jealousy can turn reassurance into a comparison: saying, 'I love you more than anyone,' may make the listener ask who else is being compared.

Poetic Couplet (Bharati)

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

G.U. Pope Translation

'I love you more than all beside,' 'T was thus I gently spoke;'What all, what all?' she instant cried; And all her anger woke

Classical Meaning (Drew & Lazarus)

When I said I loved her more than any other woman, she said "more than others, yes, more than others," and remained sulky

Tamil commentary

காதலர் எவரைக் காட்டிலும் நாம் மிகுந்த காதல் உடையவர்கள் என்றேன்; அதற்கு அவள் நான் பலரையும் காதலிப்பதாகவும், அவர்களுள் இவள்மீது அதிகக் காதல் உடையவன் என்று சொன்னதாகவும் எண்ணி, எவளைக் காட்டிலும் எவளைக் காட்டிலும் என் மீது காதல் உடையீர் என்று ஊடினாள்.

Chapter 132

More from Feigned Anger

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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?\"