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Chapter 132: புலவி நுணுக்கம்

On Love Married Love Chapter 132

Kural 1320

புலவி நுணுக்கம்

Position 10/10

திருக்குறள்

நினைத்திருந்து நோக்கினும் காயும் அனைத்துநீர் யாருள்ளி நோக்கினீர் என்று.

Ninaiththirundhu Nokkinum Kaayum Anaiththuneer Yaarulli Nokkineer Endru

“I think and gaze at her; she chides: \"On whom your thought just now abides?\"”

I silent sat, but thought the more, And gazed on her Then sheCried out, 'While thus you eye me o'er, Tell me whose form you see'

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Kural #1320

The Sweetness of a Grumpy Smile

The story illustrates the Kural by showing how a husband's admiring gaze can provoke a beautiful, feigned anger from the wife, reflecting the intimacy of their bond. Even when I look on her contemplating (her beauty), she is displeased and says, "With whose thought have you (thus) looked on my person?"

6–10 yr 1 min