INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF TIRUVALLUVAR
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A Lecture by Prof.Avvai Duraisami Pillai
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Part – 98
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காலை அரும்பிப் பகல் எல்லாம் போதாகி
மாலை மலரும்இந் நோய் (101)
Thus the sorrows of love consequent upon the absence of the husband consume her physical essence and result in the loss of colour and reduction of beauty of the face, eyes and other parts of her body. When the friendly talk of her companion turns towards the change that has taken place in her, she simply says that her husband has caused this separation purposely to effect these changes in her. She says “Even if I am silent, my eyes streaming with tears, shoulders shrunken and armlets slipping proclaim the callousness and cruelty of the heart of my parted husband”. At the same time, her husband is also not unaware of the change of her complexion and form caused immediately by his separation. In one of his soliloquies he says that when once he loosened his hands from the ecstatic embrace he avails of her, being unbearable of this slight separation, her lustrous forehead changed itself into pallid and immediately her looks also became pale.
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