Kural 1311 · பெண்ணியலார் எல்லாரும் கண்ணின் பொதுஉண்பர்
All women, with their eyes, partake of you in common; therefore, O wanderer, I will not approach your chest.
All women, with their eyes, partake of you in common; therefore, O wanderer, I will not approach your chest.
While I sat sulking, he sneezed, knowing that I would bless him, saying, 'May you live long.'
Even if I wear a flower from the branch, she gets angry, saying, 'You wore it to show yourself to some woman.'
When I said, 'I love you more than anyone,' she at once sulked, asking, 'More than whom? More than whom?'
When I said, 'In this birth we shall not part,' her eyes at once filled with tears.
I said, 'I thought of you,' and she, who was about to embrace me, sulked and did not, saying, 'Then you had forgotten me.'
When I sneezed she blessed me; then she took back the blessing and wept, asking, 'Thinking of whom did you sneeze?'
When I suppressed my sneeze, she wept, saying, 'Are you hiding from me that your people are thinking of you?'
Even if I try to soothe her sulk, she gets angry, saying, 'You are of this very nature to others too.'
Even if I look at her with loving thought, she gets angry, saying, 'You look so intently; thinking of whom do you look?'