పుట:A Collection of Telugu Proverbs.pdf/276

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ఈ పుటను అచ్చుదిద్దలేదు

TELUGU PROVERBS.


1486. పుబ్బ రేగినా బూతు రేగినా నిలవదు.

If Pubba bursts forth (in rain) or if obscenity breaks out, they won’t stop.
Pubba is the eleventh lunar mansion.
If the first of July it be rainy weather,
’Twill rain more or less for four weeks together.

1487. పురిట్లోనే సందు కొట్టినది.

The child was demon-struck before it was ten days old.
A Hindu infant is not taken out of the house during the mother's Purudu or ten days of ceremonial uncleanness after its birth. During this time the child is thought to be perfectly safe from the evil spirits, to attacks from which it is afterwards liable.

1488. పుర్రు కారుతూ వుంటే, పోతరాజు శివమాడినట్టు.

When a man was dying'from diarrhcea, some one played pranks as if possessed by Pota Razu.
( For Pota Razu see No. 1413. )

1489. పులగము మీదికి తెడ్డెడు పప్పు.

A ladleful of 1331 on Pulagam.
For Dal see No. 183 -Pulagam is rice mixed with pulse (called in Hindustani Khichri. ) — To add more dal is considered barbarous.

1490. పులిగాడికి గిలిగాడు.

A ruffian even has his bugbear.

1491. పులి నాకి విడిచినట్టు.

The tiger licked him and left him.
A marvellous escape.

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