Kural 1168 · மன்னுயிர் எல்லாம் துயிற்றி அளித்திரா
O Night, who puts all living beings to sleep and gives them grace, it seems you have no companion except me.
பதினெண்கீழ்க்கணக்கு / Patinenkilkanakku
The Eighteen Lesser Texts, including the Thirukkural.
Kural 1169 · கொடியார் கொடுமையின் தாம்கொடிய இந்நாள்
More cruel than the cruelty of the cruel one is this night that passes so slowly these days.
Kural 1170 · உள்ளம்போன்று உள்வழிச் செல்கிற்பின் வெள்ளநீர்
If my eyes could go, like my heart, to the place where he is, they would not need to swim in a flood of tears.
Kural 1171 · கண்தாம் கலுழ்வ தெவன்கொலோ தண்டாநோய்
Why do the eyes themselves weep now? This unabating sickness came to me because they showed him and I saw.
Kural 1172 · தெரிந்துணரா நோக்கிய உண்கண் பரிந்துணராப்
Why do my eyes, which looked at him without discerning, now suffer in sorrow instead of bearing it with understanding?
Kural 1173 · கதுமெனத் தாநோக்கித் தாமே கலுழும்
That my eyes suddenly looked on their own and now weep of their own accord is worthy of laughter.
Kural 1174 · பெயலாற்றா நீருலந்த உண்கண் உயலாற்றா
Having fixed on me an incurable sickness from which there is no escape, my kohl-painted eyes, their water dried, can no longer rain.
Kural 1175 · படலாற்றா பைதல் உழக்கும் கடலாற்றாக்
My eyes, which caused me a sickness of love that even the sea could not bear, now suffer in grief, unable even to sleep.
Kural 1176 · ஓஒ இனிதே எமக்கிந்நோய் செய்தகண்
Oh, how sweet it is that the very eyes that gave me this sickness have themselves fallen into it!
Kural 1177 · உழந்துழந் துள்நீர் அறுக விழைந்திழைந்து
May the eyes that saw him with desire and clinging fondness suffer again and again until the water within them dries up.