Wanton Women (By St. Thiruvalluvar) Poem by Rajendran Muthiah

911.Choice armlets wearing wanton women seek not you with love
Want your wealth and their sweet words will prove ruin.
912.The strumpets weigh up your wealth and speak sweet words.
You Weigh such women’s conduct and abandon them.
913.The fake embrace of a street-walker resembles
The embrace of a strange corpse in a dark room.
914.The wise who think and earn the wealth of grace
Seek not the mercenary women for mean pleasure.
915.The wise blessed with excellent wisdom will abstain
From the mean embrace of the common-women.
916.The great men who are aware of their fame in this world
Will not touch the arms of the accomplished whore.
917.The weak-hearted embrace the common-women
Whose minds embrace other material gains.
918.Those who are devoid of searching wisdom wallow in
The embrace of the deceitful spell of the devil.
919.The soft arms of the jewels-decked whores are the hell
Into which sink the low-born who don't know their crimes.
920.Women of double minds, liquor and gambling
Are the friends of those who are forsaken by Fortune.