TAMIL PROVERBS.
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- துன்பத்திற்கு இடம் கொடேல்.
- Take care to keep off sickness.
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- துன்பம் முந்தி இன்பம் பிந்தி.
- Pain precedes, pleasure follows.
தூ.
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- தூக்கணங்குருவி குரங்கிற்குப் புத்தி சொன்னாற்போல்.
- As the hanging-nest bird gave advice to the monkey.
- The story referred to is graphically told in, I think, Panchatantra. It is as follows: On a cold rainy day a monkey chilled by the inclemency of the weather approached a tree on the branches of which were hanging numerous nests of this ingenious bird. One of the inmates addressed his simian denizen of the forest expressing surprise that a creature endowed with limbs so well fitted for the purpose did not fabricate a suitable place of shelter. The monkey felt the reflection implied in the admonition, and unable to restrain his indignation, jumped into the tree and destroyed the residence of his innocent friend.
- In my journeys on foot in varions parts of this country I have frequently seen the nests of the pendulous bird. On a tree not many miles from Trincomalie on the eastern coast of Ceylon I once saw perhaps thirty or forty nests hanging from one tree not twenty feet high: they resembled large pears.
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- தூக்கி நினைத்து நோக்கிப் பேசு.
- Speak after deliberation and circumspection.
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- தூக்கி வளர்த்த பிள்ளையும் துடையில் வைத்துத் தைத்த இலையும் உருப்படாது.
- A child brought up in the arms, and a leaf plate stitched when spread on the lap, will not be properly formed.
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- தூக்கி நிறுத்தடா பிணக்காடாய் வெட்டுகிறேன்.
- Lift me up you fellow, I will cut them down and convert the place into a burning ground.
