World Colleges Information

Kural - 1081
Goddess? or peafowl rare? She whose ears rich jewels wear,
Is she a maid of human kind? All wildered is my mind!.
Meaning : Is this jewelled female a celestial, a choice peahen, or a human being ? My mind is perplexed.
Kural - 1082
She of the beaming eyes, To my rash look her glance replies,
As if the matchless goddess' hand Led forth an armed band.
Meaning :This female beauty returning my looks is like a celestial maiden coming with an army to contend against me.
Kural - 1083
Death's form I formerly Knew not; but now 'tis plain to me;
He comes in lovely maiden's guise, With soul-subduing eyes..
Meaning : I never knew before what is called Yama; I see it now; it is the eyes that carry on a great fight with (the help of) female qualities.
Kural - 1084
In sweet simplicity, A woman's gracious form hath she;
But yet those eyes, that drink my life, Are with the form at strife!
Meaning : These eyes that seem to kill those who look at them are as it were in hostilities with this feminine simplicity.
Kural - 1085
The light that on me gleams, Is it death's dart? or eye's bright beams?
Or fawn's shy glance? All three appear In form of maiden here..
Meaning : Is it Yama, (a pair of) eyes or a hind ?- Are not all these three in the looks of this maid ?.
Kural - 1086
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.
Meaning : Her eyes will cause (me) no trembling sorrow, if they are properly hidden by her cruel arched eye-brows.
Kural - 1087
As veil o'er angry eyes Of raging elephant that lies,
The silken cincture's folds invest This maiden's panting breast.
Meaning : The cloth that covers the firm bosom of this maiden is (like) that which covers the eyes of a rutting elephant.
Kural - 1088
Ah! woe is me! my might, That awed my foemen in the fight,
By lustre of that beaming brow Borne down, lies broken now!
Meaning : On her bright brow alone is destroyed even that power of mine that used to terrify the most fearless foes in the battlefield.
Kural - 1089
Like tender fawn's her eye; Clothed on is she with modesty;
What added beauty can be lent; By alien ornament?.
Meaning :Of what use are other jewels to her who is adorned with modesty, and the meek looks of a hind ?
Kural - 1090
The palm-tree's fragrant wine, To those who taste yields joys divine;
But love hath rare felicity For those that only see!
Meaning : Unlike boiled honey which yields delight only when it is drunk, love gives pleasure even when looked at0.0.