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 NORTH INDIAN PROVERBS. 2 1

6. Khuhsurati har yak ho matluh hai. Everybody desires beauty.

7. Ah to rupaye Tci 'izzat hai. Honour means nowadays cash.

8. Shakar-hhoron ko Khudd shakar detd hai.

God gives sugar to the sugar-eater. (The Lord tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.)

9. Rozgdr aur dushman bar bar nahin miltd hai. Livelihood and your enemy are not always to be met.

10. Samp bhi mdro aur lathi hhi qaim rakho. Kill the snake, but don't break your stick.

11. Kharhuze par hard gire, to kharbuze kd nuqsdn i Kard par kharbuza gire, to kharbuze kd nuqsdn.

If the knife fall on the melon it is the melon that is hurt : If the melon fall on the knife it is the melon that is hurt. (Don't kick against the pricks).

12. Koi kisi ke dve najdve, ddnd pant qismat Idve, No one leaves his home unless his fate drives him.

13. Zabardast mare aur rone na deve. The bully beats and allows no weeping.

14. Zar hai to nar, nahin to khar !

If he have money he is a man, if not he is a jackass !

15. Kul shae ^asal ki taraf ruju* karti hain. Everything throws back to its original.

16. ^Asal kahe, so ddrhijare.

Speak the truth gets his beard burnt : (want of tact).

17. Qdzi duble kyun hue ? Shahr ke andeshe se.

What has made the judge so thin ? Anxiety for the city. (The weight of responsibility.)

18. IJlds sab *aibon kd 'aib hai. The greatest sin of all is poverty.

19. 'Aqal ban' ki bhains ?

Which is greatest, sense or buffalo ?

20. Ulm be-hahs nahin barhtd hai.

Science does not advance without controversy.