The Distress of Her Beauty
கண்டதும் காதல்: தலைவியின் அழகைக் கண்டு வியந்து திகைத்துக் கூறுதல். — Love at first sight: Struck with wonder and awe upon beholding her divine grace.
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koṭumpuruvaṅ kōṭā maṟaippi ṉaṭuṅkañar / ceyyala maṉṉivaḷ kaṇ.
“If cruel eye-brow's bow, Unbent, would veil those glances now; / The shafts that wound this trembling heart Her eyes no more would dart.”
“It is only when her eyebrows will cease to bend and will veil her looks that her eyes will cease to cause me the pangs that make me tremble.”
If her curved eyebrows had shielded her gaze, her eyes could not have caused me such trembling sorrow.
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Parimelazhagar’s commentary
13th century · public domainParimelazhagar’s own words come first, unaltered. The plain reading follows below.
கொடும் புருவம் கோடா மறைப்பின்= பிரியா நட்பாய கொடும் புருவங்கள்தாம் செப்பம் உடையவாய் விலக்கினவாயின்; இவள் கண் நடுங்கு அஞர் செய்யல= அவற்றைக் கடந்து, இவள் கண்கள் எனக்கு நடுங்கும் துயரைச் செய்யமாட்டா.
Source: Tamil Wikisource
If her curved eyebrows had stood straight to veil her gaze, her eyes could never have peered past them to inflict such trembling distress upon me.