A Classical Collection of Tamil ProverbsRoutledge, 15.10.2013 - 528 Seiten First Published in 2000. This is volume XIII of 14 in the Oriental Series based on India and its language and literature and is concerned with a collection of Tamil proverbs, along with translations and explanations. |
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... caste to caste. As they are in spite of slight changes the same proverb, they ought either to be put down together or references ought to be made from one to the other, as Captain Carr has tried to do in his collection of Telugu ...
... caste to caste. As they are in spite of slight changes the same proverb, they ought either to be put down together or references ought to be made from one to the other, as Captain Carr has tried to do in his collection of Telugu ...
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... caste there are comparatively few. Folly and laziness are regarded so difierently by the Indians and the English that it is impossible to find English equivalents for the Tamil. The meaning of an English and a Tamil proverb may be the ...
... caste there are comparatively few. Folly and laziness are regarded so difierently by the Indians and the English that it is impossible to find English equivalents for the Tamil. The meaning of an English and a Tamil proverb may be the ...
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... Caste Do. abstinence from meat Cause .. Certainty, quitting it for hope Certainty Charity (benevolence Children . . . ... ... Do. the capacities of amen Do. at home Do. - the conceit of young people Do. contrasted with ag Do. over ...
... Caste Do. abstinence from meat Cause .. Certainty, quitting it for hope Certainty Charity (benevolence Children . . . ... ... Do. the capacities of amen Do. at home Do. - the conceit of young people Do. contrasted with ag Do. over ...
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... caste, and this is the law of my belly. 851. Potters are never Vaishnavas; but the potters at Srirangam were compelled by the Vaishnava Brahmins to putfithe Vaishnava mark on their foreheads; otherwise the Brahmins would not buy their ...
... caste, and this is the law of my belly. 851. Potters are never Vaishnavas; but the potters at Srirangam were compelled by the Vaishnava Brahmins to putfithe Vaishnava mark on their foreheads; otherwise the Brahmins would not buy their ...
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INDEX OF THE FIRST WORD OF EACH PROVERB | 405 |
AN INDEX OF NONINITIAL WORDS FROM THE BODY OF THE PROVERBS | 443 |
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bear beat beauty become better body born Brahmin break bring called carry caste child cloth comes dance daughter death desire destroyed devil drink evil eyes face fall father faults fear find fire first fool fruit gain girl give given goes gold hair hand head heart Hindu hold horse husband India ironically keep king learning leaves live look lost man’s married master meaning measure milk mother mother-in-law mouth never once one’s person poor prosperity proverb quarrel referred rice river ruined seek seen servant snake sorrow speak stone story Tamil tell things thinks thousand tree trouble truth village wedding wicked wife woman women young