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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... meaning. Sci-.1 these days I got no insight whatever into the real household proverbs, but had almost to rest satisfied with the many aphorisms, or what we in Tamil A call Igfianifi, of which we find large numbers in all our Tamil ...
... meaning. Sci-.1 these days I got no insight whatever into the real household proverbs, but had almost to rest satisfied with the many aphorisms, or what we in Tamil A call Igfianifi, of which we find large numbers in all our Tamil ...
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... meaning of the proverbs, not as ome pundits may please to explain them, but as common men andwomen understand them, when they use them in their every day life. Another difficulty, again, was to have these thousands of proverbs before me ...
... meaning of the proverbs, not as ome pundits may please to explain them, but as common men andwomen understand them, when they use them in their every day life. Another difficulty, again, was to have these thousands of proverbs before me ...
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... meaning. The other books from which I have chiefly drawn are the Tamil story books and Sastras. Of such I shall mention a few: cgnméylfl, agnfiégnwmfl, uéjcgrtfimb, Qafléams, @ngfirain ugmmaang. Pandit S. M. Natesa Sastri's “ Folklore ...
... meaning. The other books from which I have chiefly drawn are the Tamil story books and Sastras. Of such I shall mention a few: cgnméylfl, agnfiégnwmfl, uéjcgrtfimb, Qafléams, @ngfirain ugmmaang. Pandit S. M. Natesa Sastri's “ Folklore ...
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... meaning. Take as an instance Percival's :~—@'261ru.ureir @261) Qairerfi, gofigneir snub Gel/19 @ncir, translated: “ the younger sister feeds on. leaves, the elder is accustomed to fruit; ” in this case the translation is wrong, but even ...
... meaning. Take as an instance Percival's :~—@'261ru.ureir @261) Qairerfi, gofigneir snub Gel/19 @ncir, translated: “ the younger sister feeds on. leaves, the elder is accustomed to fruit; ” in this case the translation is wrong, but even ...
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... meaning has not been fullyygrasped, and partly because many of them to be well understood ought to have a little story attached to them. They might be divided into more families, and all the minor families might again be grouped into ...
... meaning has not been fullyygrasped, and partly because many of them to be well understood ought to have a little story attached to them. They might be divided into more families, and all the minor families might again be grouped into ...
Inhalt
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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
Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | A Classical Collection of Tamil Proverbs |
| Autor/in | Herman Jensen |
| Verlag | Routledge, 2013 |
| ISBN | 1136387773, 9781136387777 |
| Länge | 528 Seiten |
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