பெண்ணினால் பெண்மை உடைத்தென்ப கண்ணினால் காமநோய் சொல்லி இரவு.
Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition
Read Kural 1280 ↗Kural 1280
To show by eye the pain of love, and for relief to pray, Is womanhood's most womanly device, men say.
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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