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Good Wishes To the Bride
  When you, beautiful girl, were born,
How many (drums) did they not beat then in heaven.
When you, beautiful girl, were born
They blew in a shell in the underworld.
Oh beautiful woman, from your womb may
 be born a son like [[J?]] Palle (mythical hero)
Oh beautiful woman from your womb may be
 born a son like [[a?]] Palle.
If you should be able to do so
 Kindly give me a golden coat.
If you should not be able to do so
Give me the evoked horns of a female [[1z?]].

P 407 milestones in Telegu Literature
has some fine proverbs. by Yemana

11 If thou wilt work for hire and slave and gain and give it to thy wife she knows to applaud thee, but a thousand-fold will she revile her husband, if he falls into poverty.
14 The house of a virtuous woman is orderly. She is like a light shining in a dark room. The house in which a first wedded wife dwells is like a place of divine worship.
50 If you catch a monkey, and dress it in a new robe the hill apes will all worship it.  [[strikethrough]]Thus[[/strikethrough]] Thus are the [[lockless?]] subject to the senseless.

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A stone in the shoe, a gadfly in the ear, a mote in the eye a thorn in the foot and a quarell in the family however small in themselves are unspeakably lamenting.
90. If they see a man of property women lay their vests for his feet to walk on; but if they meet one who has lost his possessions, they hold him no better than a walking corpse.

p 433 Singhalese superstitions

   meet a Museum attache a woman in grey tall grey hair dark eyes.  very intelligent & fine manner who says Prof. Goodyear (president of museum) is anxious to meet me.  I wait a minute or two in the Library, then start off.  Woman in grey follows quickly and says she hopes I can wait a minute or two [[strikethrough]] to see [[/strikethrough]] as Prof Goodyear is anxious to meet me.  Prof. comes out of his private office - introduces Director Fox and then takes me up to the exhibition.  Find Brinton who introduces Turner and [[Reuf?]] of the Museum staff.  Look over the pictures after shaking hands with Anisfeld & Bourgeois.  Prof. Goodyear comes in with a catalog and offers it to me with a profound bow.  Later find Ansifeld