மலரன்ன கண்ணாள் முகமொத்தி யாயின் பலர்காணத் தோன்றல் மதி.
Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition
Read Kural 1119 ↗Kural 1119
If as her face, whose eyes are flowers, thou wouldst have charms for me, Shine for my eyes alone, O moon, shine not for all to see!
G. U. Pope · 1886 · Public domain. Historical wording is preserved.
Source record
Tiruvalluvar; Tamil digital dataset Senkanthal.org
MIT (explicit dataset permission in repository README); underlying classical Tamil public domain
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