Desire for Reunion
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kaṇṇiṟ ṟuṉittē kalaṅkiṉāḷ pulluta / leṉṉiṉun tāṉvitup puṟṟu.
With her eyes she sulked at me, and no further than her eyes; then, in more of a hurry for the embrace than I was myself, she was shaken out of even that.
▸Other translations · Pope (1886) & Aiyar (1916)
“Her eye, as I drew nigh one day, with anger shone: / By love o'erpowered, her tenderness surpassed my own.”
“There were the sulks in her eye when she saw me: but when I approached, she flew to my arms even quicker than I myself to hers.”
Parimelazhagar’s commentary
13th century · public domainParimelazhagar’s own words come first, unaltered. The plain reading follows below.
கண்ணின் துனித்தே= காதலி முன்னொருஞான்று, புல்லல் விதுப்பினாற் சென்ற என்னோடு தன்கண் மாத்திரத்தான் ஊடி; புல்லுதல் என்னினும் தான் விதுப்புற்றுக் கலங்கினாள்= புல்லுதலை என்னினும்தான் விதும்பலால், அதுதன்னையும் அப்பொழுதே மறந்து கூடிவிட்டாள்; அதனால், நான் இத்தன்மையேன் ஆகவும், விதுப்பின்றி ஊடிநிற்கின்ற இவள் அவள் அல்லள் எ-று.
Source: Tamil Wikisource
On an earlier day I came to her wanting the embrace, and she sulked at me with her eye alone. But because she was in more of a hurry for that embrace than I was, she forgot even that sulk at that very moment and joined me. I am the same man I was then; so this one, standing here sulking with no such hurry in her, is not she.