Bouderie

Thiruvalluvar

Not directly mentioned in the excerpts; included as a canonical figure but no specific role in this chapter.

Part III—Love

Personified as an incident of married life, described in the final chapters as the salt of love.

CIX: The Wound That Beauty Inflicteth

The speaker in this chapter is the lover experiencing the wound of beauty, consistent with the character Bouderie's role in the love narrative.

CXIII: The Glorification of Love

The lover who expresses profound devotion and longing for the beloved.

CXIV: Overpassing the Bounds of Decorum

The lover experiencing the pangs of passion and resorting to riding the palmyra stalk.

CXV: The Public Humour

The male lover who speaks first, expressing how the public outcry revives his passion and makes him feel he already possesses his beloved.

CXVII: Bewailing the Pangs of Separation and Pining Away

The speaker, pining in separation and struggling with concealed grief.

CXVIII: The Wasting of the Eyes Through Wistful Longing

The heroine, personifying the pangs of separation and wistful longing, speaks of her eyes' betrayal and grief.

CXIX: Bewailing the Pallor of Pining Love

Implied as the beloved whose departure causes the speaker's pallor and pangs of heart.

CXX: Anguish of Heart That the Husband Feeleth Not as Oneself

The speaker, a woman pining for her husband's affection, embodies the theme of unrequited love and emotional suffering.

CXXI: Sighing for the Absent One

The speaker, a lover experiencing the pain of separation and longing for the absent beloved.

CXXII: In Praise of the Dream-State

The speaker who pines for her beloved and finds solace only in dreams.

CXXIII: Sighing at the Approach of Evening

The speaker, a wife experiencing pangs of separation, laments the approach of evening and recalls her absent husband.

CXXIV: The Wasting Away of Her Lovely Form

The heroine pines for her beloved, her form wasting away from separation.

CXXV: Addressing One’s Own Heart

The speaker's heart is personified and addressed throughout the chapter, embodying the emotional conflict of love and separation.

CXXVI: The Losing of the Sense of a Dignified Reserve

The speaker embodies Bouderie, experiencing the loss of dignified reserve and the compulsion to reconcile despite pride.

CXXVII: The Longing of the Lovers to Meet

The wife is depicted in a state of longing and physical decline, counting days and wasting away, embodying the pangs of separation.

CXXVIII: Reading the Secret Thought

The beloved whose secret thoughts are read through her eyes and half-smile, and who fears her lord's concealed feelings may mean a second departure.

CXXIX: The Impatience of the Pair to Fly to Each Other’s Arms

Personified as the sulking impulse that cannot persist in the face of true love.

CXXX: Chiding the Heart

Referenced as a desired act of sulking or feigned indifference that the heart refuses to perform.

CXXXI: Bouderie

Personified as the salt of love, central to the chapter's theme of feigned anger in romantic relationships.

CXXXII: The Finesses of Bouderie

Personification of the sulking lover, whose finesses and jealous reactions drive the chapter's exploration of romantic tension.

CXXXIII: The Charm of Bouderie

Personified as the charm of love, whose feigned quarrel adds piquancy to the embrace and culminates in sweet reconciliation.