Love (காமத்துப்பால்) — The Post-marital love (கற்பியல்) — The Reading of the Signs (குறிப்பறிவுறுத்தல்)

Kural 1271:
கரப்பினுங் கையிகந் தொல்லாநின் உண்கண்
உரைக்கல் உறுவதொன் றுண்டு.
karappinung kaiyikanh thollaanin un-kan
uraikkal uruvadhon rundu
English couplet:
Thou hid'st it, yet thine eye, disdaining all restraint,
Something, I know not, what, would utter of complaint.
Explanation: Though you would conceal (your feelings), your painted eyes would not, for, transgressing (their bounds), they tell (me) something.

Kural 1272:
கண்ணிறைந்த காரிகைக் காம்பேர்தோட் பேதைக்குப்
பெண்நிறைந்த நீர்மை பெரிது.
kanniraindha kaarikaik kaampaerdhoat paedhaikkup
penniRaindha neermai peridhu
English couplet:
The simple one whose beauty fills mine eye, whose shoulders curve
Like bambu stem, hath all a woman's modest sweet reserve.
Explanation: Unusually great is the female simplicity of your maid whose beauty fills my eyes and whose shoulders resemble the bamboo.

Kural 1273:
மணியில் திகழ்தரு நூல்போல் மடந்தை
அணியில் திகழ்வதொன்று உண்டு.
maniyil thikazhdharu noolpoal madandhai
aniyil thikazhvadhondru undu
English couplet:
As through the crystal beads is seen the thread on which they 're strung
So in her beauty gleams some thought cannot find a tongue.
Explanation: There is something that is implied in the beauty of this woman, like the thread that is visible in a garland of gems.

Kural 1274:
முகைமொக்குள் உள்ளது நாற்றம்போல் பேதை
நகைமொக்குள் உள்ளதொன் றுண்டு.
mukaimokkul ulladhu naatrampoal paedhai
nakaimokkul ulladhon rundu
English couplet:
As fragrance in the opening bud, some secret lies
Concealed in budding smile of this dear damsel's eyes.
Explanation: There is something in the unmatured smile of this maid like the fragrance that is contained in an unblossomed bud.

Kural 1275:
செறிதொடி செய்திறந்த கள்ளம் உறுதுயர்
தீர்க்கும் மருந்தொன்று உடைத்து.
seridhodi seydhirandha kallam urudhuyar
theerkkum marundhondru udaiththu
English couplet:
The secret wiles of her with thronging armlets decked,
Are medicines by which my raising grief is checked.
Explanation: The well-meant departure of her whose bangles are tight-fitting contains a remedy that can cure my great sorrow.

Kural 1276:
பெரிதாற்றிப் பெட்பக் கலத்தல் அரிதாற்றி
அன்பின்மை சூழ்வ துடைத்து.
peridhaatrip petpak kalaththal aridhaatri
anpinmai soozhva thudaiththu
English couplet:
While lovingly embracing me, his heart is only grieved:
It makes me think that I again shall live of love bereaved.
Explanation: The embrace that fills me with comfort and gladness is capable of enduring (my former) sorrow and meditating on his want of love.

Kural 1277:
தண்ணந் துறைவன் தணந்தமை நம்மினும்
முன்னம் உணர்ந்த வளை.
thannan thuraivan thanandhamai namminum
munnam unarndha valai
English couplet:
My severance from the lord of this cool shore,
My very armlets told me long before.
Explanation: My bracelets have understood before me the (mental) separation of him who rules the cool seashore.

Kural 1278:
நெருநற்றுச் சென்றார்எம் காதலர் யாமும்
எழுநாளேம் மேனி பசந்து.
neru-natruch chendraar-em kaadhalar yaamum
ezhunaalaem maeni pasandhu
English couplet:
My loved one left me, was it yesterday?
Days seven my pallid body wastes away!.
Explanation: It was but yesterday my lover departed (from me); and it is seven days since my complexion turned sallow.

Kural 1279:
தொடிநோக்கி மென்தோளும் நோக்கி அடிநோக்கி
அஃதாண் டவள்செய் தது.
thotinoakki mendhoalum noakki atinoakki
aqdhaan davalsey thadhu
English couplet:
She viewed her tender arms, she viewed the armlets from them slid;
She viewed her feet: all this the lady did.
Explanation: She looked at her bracelets, her tender shoulders, and her feet; this was what she did there (significantly).

Kural 1280:
பெண்ணினால் பெண்மை உடைத்தென்ப கண்ணினால்
காமநோய் சொல்லி இரவு.
penninaal penmai udaiththenpa kanninaal
kaamanoai solli iravu
English couplet:
To show by eye the pain of love, and for relief to pray,
Is womanhood's most womanly device, men say.
Explanation: To express their love-sickness by their eyes and resort to begging bespeaks more than ordinary female excellence.