A dictionary of Kashmiri proverbs, explained by J.H. Knowles |
Common terms and phrases
Akbar andar asked athah batah bázár běyih Bír Bal Bráhman called chhai chhěh chhih chhuh chhuh nah chhuí chhum chhus child Cited cooked cowrie daughter dinner eleven father fellow fire-place garah garih gatshih gayih ghí give grass hand Hindú horse hund húni husband Jogí kángar Kángrí kanh kanih karán karih Kashmírí Khán khěyih Khojah khutah king kulai kúr kyah Lár mál man's manz matter měh milk mosque mother Muhammedan nadur nah tah nerun nindar nishih once one's paisás Pandit patah Persian person peth pír poor proverb Rájá replied rice Rishi river rupees rúpís Sanskrit servant Shekh Shi'as Shiva Srinagar stick stone story suět suí sund sunz surmah tah nah tatih thief thing tree trouble valley village wife woman Woni words wuni yělih yiyih zorah
Popular passages
Page 157 - Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
Page 199 - Give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me.
Page 48 - There is that scattereth, and. yet increaseth ; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty,
Page 194 - Then to his last informant he referred, And begged to know if true what he had heard. "Did you, sir, throw up a black crow?
Page 4 - O wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as others see us!
Page 30 - I learnt from it, never to repine at my own misfortunes, or to envy the happiness of another, since it is impossible for any man to form a right judgment of his...
Page 136 - ... of the Kashmiris, so far as their priests are concerned, the following proverb shows: "Yih moullah dapi ti gatshi karun, yih moullah kari ti gatshi na karun.'" (Do as the priest says but not as he does) Some of the proverbs enunciate sound principles in a terse phrase, eg "Manz atsun chhu kanz atsun.
Page 32 - In reply, the public prosecutor alleged that, though the devil did not make sompacts with brutes, he sometimes entered into them ; and though the swine possessed by devils, as mentioned in Scripture, were involuntary agents, yet they, nevertheless, were punished by being caused to run down a steep place into the sea, and so perished in the waters. The pleadings in this case, even as recorded by...
Page 175 - Which he to us laid open then, By which in long procession men Ascend to his sublime abode. By it our fathers all have passed ; And that same path we too shall trace, And every new succeeding race Of mortal men, while time shall last. The god assembles...
Page 241 - Money can buy many things, good and evil. All the wealth of the world could not buy you a friend, nor pay you for the loss of one.