Love (காமத்துப்பால்) — The Post-marital love (கற்பியல்) — The Solitary Anguish (தனிப்படர்மிகுதி)

Kural 1191:
தாம்வீழ்வார் தம்வீழப் பெற்றவர் பெற்றாரே
காமத்துக் காழில் கனி.
thaamveezhvaar thamveezhap petravar petraare
kaamaththuk kaazhil kani
English couplet:
The bliss to be beloved by those they love who gains,
Of love the stoneless, luscious fruit obtains.
Explanation: The women who are beloved by those whom they love, have they have not got the stone-less fruit of sexual delight ?

Kural 1192:
வாழ்வார்க்கு வானம் பயந்தற்றால் வீழ்வார்க்கு
வீழ்வார் அளிக்கும் அளி.
vaazhvaarkku vaanam payandhatraal veezhvaarkku
veezhvaar alikkum ali
English couplet:
As heaven on living men showers blessings from above,
Is tender grace by lovers shown to those they love.
Explanation: The bestowal of love by the beloved on those who love them is like the rain raining (at the proper season) on those who live by it.

Kural 1193:
வீழுநர் வீழப் படுவார்க்கு அமையுமே
வாழுநம் என்னும் செருக்கு.
Veezhunar Veezhap Patuvaarkku Amaiyume
Vaazhunam Ennum Serukku
English couplet:
Who love and are beloved to them alone
Belongs the boast, 'We've made life's very joys our own.'.
Explanation: The pride that says "we shall live" suits only those who are loved by their beloved (husbands).

Kural 1194:
வீழப் படுவார் கெழீஇயிலர் தாம்வீழ்வார்
வீழப் படாஅர் எனின்.
veezhap patuvaar kezhee-iyilar thaamveezhvaar
veezhap pataa-ar enin
English couplet:
Those well-beloved will luckless prove,
Unless beloved by those they love.
Explanation: Even those who are esteemed (by other women) are devoid of excellence, if they are not loved by their beloved.

Kural 1195:
நாம்காதல் கொண்டார் நமக்கெவன் செய்பவோ
தாம்காதல் கொள்ளாக் கடை.
naamkaadhal kontaar namakkevan seypavo
thaamkaadhal kollaak kadai
English couplet:
From him I love to me what gain can be,
Unless, as I love him, he loveth me?.
Explanation: He who is beloved by me, what will he do to me, if I am not beloved by him ?.

Kural 1196:
ஒருதலையான் இன்னாது காமம்காப் போல
இருதலை யானும் இனிது.
orudhalaiyaan innaadhu kaamamkaap pola
irudhalai yaanum inidhu
English couplet:
Love on one side is bad; like balanced load
By porter borne, love on both sides is good.
Explanation: Lust, like the weight of the KAVADI, pains if it lies in one end only but pleases if it is in both.

Kural 1197:
பருவரலும் பைதலும் காணான்கொல் காமன்
ஒருவர்கண் நின்றொழுகு வான்.
paruvaralum paidhalum kaanaankol kaaman
oruvar-kan nindrozhuku vaan
English couplet:
While Kaman rushes straight at me alone,
Is all my pain and wasting grief unknown?
Explanation: Would not cupid who abides and contends in one party (only) witness the pain and sorrow (in that party)?

Kural 1198:
வீழ்வாரின் இன்சொல் பெறாஅது உலகத்து
வாழ்வாரின் வன்கணார் இல்.
veezhvaarin insol peraaadhu ulakaththu
vaazhvaarin van-kanaar il
English couplet:
Who hear from lover's lips no pleasant word from day to day,
Yet in the world live out their life,- no braver souls than they!.
Explanation: There is no one in the world so hard-hearted as those who can live without receiving (even) a kind word from their beloved.

Kural 1199:
நசைஇயார் நல்கார் எனினும் அவர்மாட்டு
இசையும் இனிய செவிக்கு.
nasai-iyaar nalkaar eninum avarmaattu
isaiyum iniya sevikku
English couplet:
Though he my heart desires no grace accords to me,
Yet every accent of his voice is melody.
Explanation: Though my beloved bestows no love on one, still are his words sweet to my ears.

Kural 1200:
உறாஅர்க்கு உறுநோய் உரைப்பாய் கடலைச்
செறாஅஅய் வாழிய நெஞ்சு.
uraaarkku urunoi uraippaai katalaich
cheraaaai vaazhiya nenju
English couplet:
Tell him thy pain that loves not thee?
Farewell, my soul, fill up the sea!.
Explanation: Live, O my soul, would you who relate your great sorrow to strangers, try rather to fill up your own sea (of sorrow).