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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... story books , but when reading these I had already perceived that the Indians could hardly tell a story without introducing some proverbs into it . My attention was thus at an early period of my life in India drawn to proverbs , and I ...
... story books , but when reading these I had already perceived that the Indians could hardly tell a story without introducing some proverbs into it . My attention was thus at an early period of my life in India drawn to proverbs , and I ...
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... story books and Sastras . Of such I shall mention a few : F , கதாசிந்தாமணி , பஞ்சதந்திரம் , கிளிக்கதை , முப்பத்திரண்டு பதுமைகதை . Pandit S. M. Natesa Sastri's " Folklore in Southern ...
... story books and Sastras . Of such I shall mention a few : F , கதாசிந்தாமணி , பஞ்சதந்திரம் , கிளிக்கதை , முப்பத்திரண்டு பதுமைகதை . Pandit S. M. Natesa Sastri's " Folklore in Southern ...
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... story attached to them . They might be divided into more families , and all the minor families might again be grouped into main families , as I have tried to do at the beginning of the book , and also at the end of it . As the result of ...
... story attached to them . They might be divided into more families , and all the minor families might again be grouped into main families , as I have tried to do at the beginning of the book , and also at the end of it . As the result of ...
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... stories to women and children inside the houses who are half asleep on their mats , may make some use of them . But we men of the nineteenth century , what on earth have we to do with obsolete proverbial literature , some may ask . My ...
... stories to women and children inside the houses who are half asleep on their mats , may make some use of them . But we men of the nineteenth century , what on earth have we to do with obsolete proverbial literature , some may ask . My ...
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Herman Jensen. Legends , stories and proverbs are her storehouse ; from these she obtains material for rebuking , for sneering , for warning , for en- couraging , for comforting and for praising . The proverbs and maxims are India's ...
Herman Jensen. Legends , stories and proverbs are her storehouse ; from these she obtains material for rebuking , for sneering , for warning , for en- couraging , for comforting and for praising . The proverbs and maxims are India's ...
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 |