Wasting Away
Chapter 124 – Wasting Away / Uruppunalanazhidhal
Couplets / kuratpaakal
Couplet 1231
Thine eyes grown dim are now ashamed the fragrant flow’rs to see,
Thinking on him, who wand’ring far, leaves us in misery.
Explanation
While we endure the unbearable sorrow, your eyes weep for him who is gone afar, and shun (the sight of) fragrant flowers.
Transliteration
Sirumai Namakkozhiyach Chetchendraar Ulli
Narumalar Naanina Kan.
Couplet 1232
The eye, with sorrow wan, all wet with dew of tears,
As witness of the lover’s lack of love appears.
Explanation
The discoloured eyes that shed tears profusely seem to betray the unkindness of our beloved.
Transliteration
Nayandhavar Nalkaamai Solluva Polum
Pasandhu Panivaarum Kan.
Couplet 1233
These withered arms, desertion’s pangs abundantly display,
That swelled with joy on that glad nuptial day.
Explanation
The shoulders that swelled on the day of our union (now) seem to announce our separation clearly (to the public).
Transliteration
Thanandhamai Saala Arivippa Polum
Manandhanaal Veengiya Thol.
Couplet 1234
When lover went, then faded all their wonted charms,
And armlets’ golden round slips off from these poor wasted arms.
Explanation
In the absence of your consort, your shoulders having lost their former beauty and fulness, your bracelets of pure gold have become loose.
Transliteration
Panaineengip Paindhoti Sorum Thunaineengith
Tholkavin Vaatiya Thol.
Couplet 1235
These wasted arms, the bracelet with their wonted beauty gone,
The cruelty declare of that most cruel one.
Explanation
The (loosened) bracelets, and the shoulders from which the old beauty has faded, relate the cruelty of the pitiless one.
Transliteration
Kotiyaar Kotumai Uraikkum Thotiyotu
Tholkavin Vaatiya Thol.
Couplet 1236
I grieve, ’tis pain to me to hear him cruel chid,
Because the armlet from my wasted arm has slid.
Explanation
I am greatly pained to hear you call him a cruel man, just because your shoulders are reduced and your bracelets loosened.
Transliteration
Thotiyotu Tholnekizha Noval Avaraik
Kotiyar Enakkooral Nondhu.
Couplet 1237
My heart! say ought of glory wilt thou gain,
If to that cruel one thou of thy wasted arms complain.
Explanation
Can you O my soul! gain glory by relating to the (so-called) cruel one the clamour of my fading shoulders?.
Transliteration
Paatu Perudhiyo Nenje Kotiyaarkken
Vaatudhot Poosal Uraiththu.
Couplet 1238
One day the fervent pressure of embracing arms I checked,
Grew wan the forehead of the maid with golden armlet decked.
Explanation
When I once loosened the arms that were in embrace, the forehead of the gold-braceleted women turned sallow.
Transliteration
Muyangiya Kaikalai Ookkap Pasandhadhu
Paindhotip Pedhai Nudhal.
Couplet 1239
As we embraced a breath of wind found entrance there;
The maid’s large liquid eyes were dimmed with care.
Explanation
When but a breath of breeze penetrated our embrace, her large cool eyes became sallow.
Transliteration
Muyakkitaith Thanvali Pozhap Pasapputra
Pedhai Perumazhaik Kan.
Couplet 1240
The dimness of her eye felt sorrow now,
Beholding what was done by that bright brow.
Explanation
Was it at the sight of what the bright forehead had done that the sallowness of her eyes became sad?.
Transliteration
Kannin Pasappo Paruvaral Eydhindre
Onnudhal Seydhadhu Kantu.
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