செற்றார் எனக்கை விடல்உண்டோ நெஞ்சேயாம் உற்றால் உறாஅ தவர்.
Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition
Read Kural 1245 ↗Kural 1245
O heart, as a foe, can I abandon utterly Him who, though I long for him, longs not for me?
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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