Tirukural

CHAPTER 92

Wanton Women

911

The sweet words of beautifully bangled women who desire a man’s wealth and not his love decree his fall into disgrace.§

912

Weigh the worth and abandon the company of wanton women who, weighing their profit, prattle about their virtues.§

913

A mercenary woman pretends intimate embrace, but in the darkened room, she caresses a stranger’s carcass.§

914

Men seeking spiritual treasures are too worldly wise to touch tawdry women who treasure only material riches.§

915

Men of innate good sense and acquired wisdom never touch tramps who shamelessly share their beauty with all.§

916

Desiring to maintain their jubilant goodness, men will not embrace enticing women who proffer lewd charms to all.§

917

Only men of unchaste mind will lie in the arms of women whose hearts chase after other things as they embrace.§

918

It is said that men devoid of discerning wisdom succumb to a deceiving damsel’s embrace as to a siren’s song.§

919

The soft arms of the elegantly bejeweled harlot are a murky mire that engulfs wicked, stupid men.§

920

Two-faced females, besotting brew and addictive dice befriend the men whom fortune has forsaken.§