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Chapter 124: உறுப்புநலன் அழிதல்

On Love Married Love Chapter 124

Kural 1235

உறுப்புநலன் அழிதல்

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திருக்குறள்

கொடியார் கொடுமை உரைக்கும் தொடியொடு தொல்கவின் வாடிய தோள்.

Kotiyaar Kotumai Uraikkum Thotiyotu Tholkavin Vaatiya Thol

“Bereft of bracelets and old beauty Arms tell the cruel's cruelty”

These wasted arms, the bracelet with their wonted beauty gone,The cruelty declare of that most cruel one

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Kural #1235

The Silent Witnesses

The story illustrates how the physical decline of the woman—her thin shoulders and loose bracelets—acts as a testament to the cruelty of her husband's long absence. The (loosened) bracelets, and the shoulders from which the old beauty has faded, relate the cruelty of the pitiless one

6–10 yr 1 min