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 38 NORTH INDIAN PROVERBS.

184. Podd pdni kd kird.

Plants are water-worms: (can't live without it).

185. Rdni hdgh ki huti hai.

A queen is a garden plant: (highly bred).

186. Rah 'pid jane, yd wdh pid jane. Companionship and dealings test friends.

187. Baniyd se siydnd, so bhi diwdnd.

Sharper than a trader is a fool: (Indian traders are proverbial sharp).

188. Pagri men unt.

A camel in his turban: (so he is told and believes without testing the fact).

189. Ghi bin sab ghds resoi. Without butter all food is grass.

190. Charhte charhte sawdr hojiitd kai.

Riding makes the horseman: (practice makes perfect).

PanjAbi Proverbs.

1 . Chahdre di it pakhdne nun lai.

Using palace bricks for a privy: (mesalliance^ marrying beneath one).

2. Bakhtdwar di ran sabh di ndni.

The rich man's wife is everybody's grandmother: (she is always respected).

3. Sat chuhe khdke bilU hajj nun chali.

The cat ate up seven rats and then went on a pilgrimage : (hypocrisy).

4. Mirdsi di mashkari man bhain ndl.

The bard will jest (indecently) with his own mother and sister. {Mirdsis are notoriously shameless.)

5. Sdli addhi ran hundi hai.

Your brother's wife is half your wife. (Allusion to the custom of the levirate among the Jatts of the Panjab.)

6. SdndJi sdndh lare brutidn dd nds.

When bull fights bull the bushes suffer: (the lowly suffer from the quarrels of the great).