Sulking
காதலின் சுவையை அதிகரிக்க தலைவனுடன் செய்யும் செல்லமான ஊடல் (புலவி). — Playfully turning away to heighten the pleasure of his pleading and reconciliation.
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ūṭa luṇaṅka viṭuvārō ṭeṉṉeñcaṅ / kūṭuvē meṉpa tavā.
“Of her who leaves me thus in variance languishing, / To think within my heart with love is fond desire.”
“If my heart still yearneth for her who sootheth me not, it is due to nothing but a foolish longing.”
He can leave me to dry out in the sulk, and still my heart says: let us go and be joined with him. What makes it say so is craving — that, and nothing else.
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Parimelazhagar’s commentary
13th century · public domainParimelazhagar’s own words come first, unaltered. The plain reading follows below.
ஊடல் உணங்க= தாம் ஊடற்கண்ணே மெலியாநிற்கவும்; விடுவாரோடு கூடுவேம் என்பது என் நெஞ்சம் அவா= விட்டிருக்க வல்லாரோடு கூடக்கடவேம் என்று என் நெஞ்சம் முயறற்கு ஏது, தன் அவாவே, பிறிதில்லை, எ-று.
Source: Tamil Wikisource
Even as I waste away in this quarrel, what drives my heart to seek reunion with the man who can bear to leave me is nothing other than its own unconquerable longing.
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