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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
OCTOBER, 1938
KASHMIRI PROVERBS. BY PANDIT ANAND KOUL, SRINAGAR, KARMA.
(Continued from page 76 supra.) Athaci ungaji pants che na dain Wishey. The five fingers of the hand are not all equal. (Used as meaning that all people are not alike, or that all do not attain the same
rank in life.)
Bhatta chu batlohiy záts; Jaldai tatán tah jaldai tardn. A pandit is of the nature of a brass vessel, [Which) quickly gets hot and quickly gets cold. (This is said with the meaning that a pandit spends his money, when he gets it,
too quickly, so that he soon comes to penury : this is regarded as a characteristio of the pandit class.)
"Bhardts máj! gub kus!" “Yws buth chalnay bhata khiyi; Branda petha muthar kari; Dohali nendar kari; Gratta tala of khiyi." "Mother Earth I who is heavy?" "He who eats food without washing his face [is dirty); [He who) urinates at the door-step [is lazy); He who sleeps during the daytime [is slothful]; He who eats flour from the millstone [is greedy)."
Dari kin ang tadmut, tonti kèt maadla phutaj het. A grey goose flying in by the window, carrying in his bill a packet of spices (for use
when it is killed and cooked). (Said of a desire unexpectedly fulfilled.)
pamb Delinyuk Jambazporyuk drándar. The Dumb of Délina ameroed for Jambazpura. (Said of an innocent person involved in trouble instead of another who is really
guilty. Dolina and Jambazpura are two villages in the Baramula Tahsil, five miles apart.)
Gagur pakan hul hul, Par panani odj kun syud. The rat runs in a zigzag course, Yet straight towards its own hole. (Sald of a person who looks a simpleton, but is very careful where his own intereste
are concerned.)
Goras dyou ndyid zangi : Dupnas : "Buh ti be-malay toa ti be-malay." A barber came across a priest; The latter said: "I carry on business without capital; thou too art conducting
business without capital (1.e., we are both equal).
