The Living Kural
Love / CHAPTER 109

Kural 1086

Kural 1086 · The Pre-marital love

கொடும்புருவம் கோடா மறைப்பின் நடுங்கஞர் செய்யல மன்இவள் கண்.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

If cruel eye-brow's bow, Unbent, would veil those glances now; The shafts that wound this trembling heart Her eyes no more would dart.

G. U. Pope · 1886 · Public domain. Historical wording is preserved.

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Tiruvalluvar; Tamil digital dataset Senkanthal.org

MIT (explicit dataset permission in repository README); underlying classical Tamil public domain

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