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42991	A Telugu proverb asks''Does the bee ever seek the arka flower?''
42991	It is a common saying among Badagas, when a man tells lies,''Will you go to Sigur, and take an oath?''
42991	The teacher asks,"Who are you?
42991	What is your name?"
42991	What was his mouth?
42991	What were called his thighs and feet?
42991	What were his arms?
42991	When they divided Purusha, into how many parts did they distribute him?
42991	who is in the hamlet?"
42995	Approaching the bridegroom, she strikes him gently, and says"Did not I give you buttermilk and curds?
42995	Chinnam, gold?
42995	Just before the tali is tied, the headman bawls out"May I look into the bride''s money and presents"?
42995	Seshai( snake?).
42995	Swami, who is thy servant to worship, and how is he to obtain moksham or admittance to the presence of the Supreme?''
42995	Thus every day the Smarta asks"Are there any more?"
42995	While this is being done, a Brahmachari asks the bridegroom"Did you see a cow and a son?"
42992	In some places, the bark of athi( Ficus glomerata) and ithi( Ficus Tsiela?)
42992	In the Gazetteer of the Madura district, it is recorded that"Podunattu( Pudunattu?)
42992	The body was mutilated, and, on my asking the accused( who freely confessed their crime) why had this been done?
42992	The devil- driver rubs her body with Phlomis(?)
42992	The only great(?)
42992	The second translation runs thus:--"''In the quiet and happy time of our reign, we, Erawi Wanwara, imitator of( successor to?)
42992	To Anjuvannam and Manigramam was granted the freehold of the lands of the town( of Kollam?).
42992	Why, therefore, violate the ordinary laws of nature by inventing supererogatory clothing?
20583	At intervals in the midst of the blessing the bridegroom and bride are asked in Persian,''Have you chosen her?''
20583	If God will make me a Turk by Him will I be circumcised; if a man becomes a Turk by being circumcised what shall be done with a woman?
20583	Taking a pot of the sacred milk in his hands he mounted the house- top and cried,''Who will drink the milk?''
20583	The girl''s father, if he approves of the match, says in reply,''Why should I not catch it?''
20583	They call on Devi, saying,''_ Maiji, Maiji Mata meri, kahe ko janam diya_''or''Mother, mother, why did you bring me into the world?''
20583	Tylor says:"The Dayak will not speak of the smallpox by name, but will call it''The Chief,''or''Jungle leaves,''or say,''Has He left you?''
20583	Whose am I the Sudra?
20583	Whose art thou the Brahman?
20583	Whose blood am I?
20583	Whose milk art thou?
20583	Women would ask,''Who is the mother of a child so beautiful that its eyes are like the lotus?''
20583	[ 170] What does the Djiitgun eat?''
20583	and''Have you chosen him?''
42996	( 8) Is the sepoy who massacred a thousand horse now living in disgrace with the dogs of the paracheri?
42996	Are you disposed to recommend and arrange the match?"
42996	Have you seen her house and relations?
42996	Hence the Tamil proverb"Is there any decoction without ginger in it?"
42996	Kapiri( Africa or the Cape?)
42996	Some conversation takes place between the headmen of the two parties, such as"Have you seen the girl?
42996	St. Gregory of Nazianzen( 370- 392 A.D.), in answering the reproach of his being a stranger, asks"Were not the apostles strangers?
42996	The Paraiyas may be mainly divided into four divisions, viz., Vellam( water or jaggery?
42996	The Paraiyas of Nevandrum( Trivandrum?)
42996	The father of the girl said''Why have you brought the liquor?''
42996	We( also) gave( him the right of) festive clothing, house pillars, the income that accrues, the export trade(?
42996	Why then should I not marry him?''
42994	How do you know?
42994	''Where do you come from?''
42994	''Who are you?''
42994	''Why?''
42994	''Will you clear out at once or not?''
42994	: Billoru( bowmen); Malloru( mallu= fight?
42994	Are you wearing cowries, O mother?
42994	But how else could one describe the following incident?
42994	Is it to send me away that you nourished me?
42994	Rikki, feather?
42994	Sindhu, sea or flag?
42994	The proverb"Does the dog that breaks the pots understand how difficult it is to pile them up?"
42994	Then the drummer, wilder and more frantic than ever, began to praise the goddess in these words:-- Are you wearing bells to your ankles, O mother?
42994	They first sang to us a song in their own lingo, and then broke into Telugu''Dora Babu yemi istavu''--What will the great man give us?
42994	They then burst into a delightful Autolycus song,''Will you give us a cloth, a jewel for the hair?''
42994	When so addressed, they have sometimes replied''Whose throat have I cut?''
42994	how can I live away from you, My brothers and sisters?
42993	A girl''s mother''s brother''s son has the right to have her to wife, and, if his right is abrogated by giving her to another, he( or his father?) 42993 As the names( of the ancestors or family?) 42993 But what as to the date of their immigration? 42993 Can not we get away? 42993 Can not we hoodwink them all? 42993 Care we for aught? 42993 Do n''t we enquire what is our offence? 42993 Do n''t we slip off uncaught? 42993 Do n''t we? 42993 Do we blurt out? 42993 Do we confess? 42993 On the acceptance by the Madiga of the betel and nuts, the Komati asksCherinda, cherinda"?
42993	Say, then, how can we contract such a marriage?"
42993	The worst insult to a Koravar woman lies in the words''Will you give asafoetida?''
42993	They quote the proverb"Did he go unserviceable even for a handful of mud?"
42993	What blame can rest upon us, Who save our land from dearth?
42993	What can I do, even if you are my child?
42993	What do you call out for?
42993	What do you say?
42993	What has a dog to do in a blacksmith''s shop?
42993	What if the carpenter''s wife has become a widow?
42993	What reason is there that we should be obedient, and pay tribute to our equal?''
42993	Where are now the grasses that adorned them, and the innocence that allowed them to go clothed only to the waist?
42993	Where has gone the love of colour?
42993	Who could suspect us?
42993	Why should a weaver have a monkey?
42993	Will the blacksmith be alarmed at the sound of a hammer?
22010	With what shall we cut_ gondla_ grass, and with what shall we cut rice? 22010 Again the Bhulias affect the honorific title of Meher, and another saying addresses them thus:Why do you call yourself Meher?
22010	And again:"If you do pluck it, can you support it?
22010	Another saying is,''_ To tum kya abhi tak bhar bhunjte rahe_,''or''Have you been stoking the oven all this time?''
22010	Kahe barbarat hai?
22010	Kahe jai jai logon ka dana khat hai?
22010	The surly farmer has come to the field and scolds them; the little birds say,''O farmer, why do you scold us?
22010	To which the girl''s father replies:"The flower is delicate; it is in the midst of an ocean and very difficult to approach: how will you pluck it?"
22010	Tor kiamat mor niamat, Bismillah hai tuch, or"Why do you cackle?
22010	What is the cradle made of, and what are its tassels made of?
22010	When asked why he did not scare them away, he said,''Are they not as much the creatures of Rama as I am?
22010	Why did not I, unfortunate one, die instead of thee?''
22010	Why do you crow?
22010	Why do you eat other people''s grain?
22010	how should I deprive them of food?''
20668	''Has she glass beads round her neck?''
20668	''Have they bracelets on their hands?''
20668	''Have they crowns on their heads?''
20668	''Have they rings in their ears?''
20668	''Have they shoes on their feet?''
20668	''Have they the doll in their hands?''
20668	''What can the washerman do in a village where the people live naked?''
20668	''Why, what is the worst,''he said,''that you can do to me?''
20668	A cocoanut was placed on the ground, and the priest, holding the pickaxe by the point in his right hand, said,''Shall I strike?''
20668	A similar state of things prevailed in classical antiquity: Who are these coming to the sacrifice?
20668	And did he not die within three months?"
20668	And did he not the very day after their execution begin to spit blood?
20668	Do you take me for an Arain?''
20668	From Ratanpur they all journeyed to Chura( Chhuri?
20668	My husband will beat me and who will pay him the compensation?
20668	On coming to the house they kick down the matting which covers the doorway; the man inside says,''Who are you?''
20668	So he asked the Banjaras,"What have you done with the five travellers, my good friends?
20668	The priest is on the roof of the house, and before the wedding he cries out:''Are the king and queen here?''
20668	To what green altar, O mysterious priest, Lead''st thou that heifer lowing at the skies, And all her silken flanks with garlands drest?
20668	When Mudhaji Sindhia caused seventy Thugs to be executed at Mathura was he not warned in a dream by Devi that he should release them?
20668	Who cares for sisters and cousins in these days of civilisation?''
20668	how may he cross the border of another country?
20668	how may he eat another''s_ banwat_?
20668	how may he go to another country?
20668	how may he touch another''s bower?
20668	how shall he bathe with strange water?
20668	how shall he marry another woman?
20668	said the king, observing him;''the monthly bill, is it?''
42997	Shall I,answers the girl''s father,"accept it?"
42997	Shall these be accepted?
42997	You who come like Siddars( attendants in the abode of Siva) at midnight, muttering Siva''s name, why do you come near Sivapadam? 42997 ''Yes, yes,''said an old man, wagging his head sagely,''but how many buffaloes is he bringing?''
42997	Among the Vadaseris, the friends come one by one, and are asked by the chief mourner,"Will you embrace, or will you strike your forehead?"
42997	Bandari, treasurer?
42997	Do you think we could kill it ourselves?
42997	Have you taken charge of the house?"
42997	Have you, or have you not taken charge of the house?"
42997	He replied''I will go to him, but who is to bear witness to the truth of your assertion?''
42997	He replies evasively"Have the carpenters and workmen received all their wages?
42997	He worshipped Varuna, the ocean god, and recovered from the sea a hundred and sixty kathams of land, consisting of Kolanad(?
42997	Others say that the Reddi( or Manchi?)
42997	She replied,''If I consent to your proposal, and bear you a son, will you make him your successor in the kingdom?''
42997	The Perumal asked him"Were you not washing the cloths before?
42997	The Tandan repeats the formula, which has already been given, and asks"May the conjee be drunk"?
42997	The woman seats herself in front of the lamp, and, on the return of the man, asks thrice"Whose bow is it?"
42997	The word Vellalan is derived from vellanmai[ vellam, water, anmai, management?]
42997	Thus, a Malabar Tiyan, travelling to the celebrated temple at Gokarnam in South Canara, is at once asked"What is your illam and kiriyam?"
42997	Two of the verses say:-- What of the hair of a man?
42997	What is to become of me?
42997	What of the days of a woman?
42997	What of the life of a man?
42997	What of the tresses of a woman?
42997	What shall I do?
42997	What, for instance, is the meaning of muperium?
42997	Which finger?
42997	Who washed them to- day?"
42997	Who will run, and catch the buffalo first?
42997	Why are not more people here?
42997	[ 51]"Puzhutkina-- Shall I throw earth?"
42997	meaning to whom, or to which mand does the child belong?
42997	or"What is it?"
42997	sons, who are you that keep on saying Hara, Hara?
41424	''The Jat stood on his corn heap and said to the king''s elephant- drivers, Will you sell those little donkeys?''
41424	Another form of this question is to say''What dudh, or milk, are you?''
41424	Are the Jats and Rajputs distinct?
41424	Are the Jats and Rajputs distinct?
41424	He came to the saint''s house upon a mountain and said to him,''Why did you carry off my son''s wife?''
41424	He said,''Oh brother, you are going to the forest, to whom do you give the kingdom of Oudh?''
41424	His paternal uncle then says to him,''Why are you going away?''
41424	How did the Gonds conduct themselves?
41424	If I were a cuckoo in the garden and you the gardener''s son, would you not trap me with your liming- stick?
41424	If I were a deer in the forest and you a famous warrior, would you not shoot me with your gun?
41424	If I were a fish in the water and you the son of a fisherman, would you not catch me with your drag- net?
41424	If the Baigas and Gonds were settled here together before the arrival of any Hindus, how is it that the Baigas do not speak Gondi instead of Hindi?
41424	In that garden what attendants shall there be?
41424	In that garden what flowers shall I set?
41424	In that garden what music shall there be?
41424	Kaushilya[ 460] stood up and said,''Now, whom shall I call my diamond and my ruby?''
41424	O brethren, what sort of a person is this giant?
41424	See from her eyes will she come or not?
41424	The old man said: Whence has a creature come here to- day to sing like the maina bird?
41424	The saint said to him,''What can you do?''
41424	The three- eyed one(?).
41424	Then what happened?
41424	Thence he returned to his field, and came near the fire and sat, and said, What nonsense is this?
41424	They asked their father: When will you give us in marriage?
41424	They said, We have never seen the place, where shall we go?
41424	They want to play, but who can make them play?
41424	Who has killed the quail and partridge, who has killed the peacock?
41424	Who is aiming through the harra and bahera trees, who is aiming on the plain?
41424	Who is he that has taken the small gun, who has taken the big bow?
41424	Who that has drunk milk in the city Yugandhara can hope to enter Svarga?
41424	Why speak you not to your slave?
41424	Wolff asked him,''How can one obtain the knowledge of God?''
41424	Ye have never seen where this fire is?
41424	[ 461] The next is a love- song by a woman: How has your countenance changed, my lord?
41424	d. Rawan[ 92] is coming disguised as a Bairagi; by what road will Rawan come?
41424	wherefore ask me?
13746	What,continues the speaker,"keeps the Brahmin at the top and the Pariah at the bottom?"
13746	What,gravely asks another,"has prevented the peoples of India uniting into one grand nation, and destroyed all hopes of political fusion?"
13746	6d., what is more likely than that the Government may persevere with this disastrous policy whenever it again finds itself in financial straits?
13746	And how, then, can it be for one moment asserted that the tendency of caste is to check the progress of the people?
13746	And what are the results of caste feeling with them?
13746	But how is it that no response comes from these country populations amongst whom I have lived?
13746	But how long was it before the people, like the Israelites of old, fell away from the grand central doctrine of Mahomedanism-- the unity of God?
13746	But is it not evident that a heavy crop followed by a small crop and much superfluous growth must be extremely bad?
13746	But what is their condition now?
13746	But what, after all, is the amount of danger?
13746	But who can say that now?
13746	How far advantageously or the reverse in segregating them socially from the conquerors who have overrun their country?
13746	How far has caste acted as a moral restraint amongst the Indians themselves?
13746	How have the dogmas of Christianity fared there?
13746	How is it that these shrewd- headed people[37] are so insensible to the evils of caste, and that you never hear one word about it?
13746	How is it then that such an infinitesimal number of the cases reported on occur within the cognizance of Europeans?
13746	How long was it before the adoration of idols was followed by the adoration of saints?
13746	How many of these has our boasted civilization improved off the face of the earth?
13746	How many years''purchase is a coffee property worth?
13746	How much has that tide of civilization which the first conquerors invariably bring with them effected?
13746	How was such a change-- one quite unique in the history of India-- received by the inhabitants of the country?
13746	I once said to a native shopkeeper in Bangalore,"What religion are you of?"
13746	I put my rifle to my shoulder, and said to him"Where?"
13746	I said,"that thing looking like a stone?"
13746	Is not the intelligent preservation of game one of the most prominent signs of advancing civilization?
13746	Regarding it, then, in all its consequences, whether physical or mental( and how many madmen and idiots are there not bred by drinking?
13746	Shall I attack, or shall I do nothing?
13746	That question is-- How far has caste acted beneficially, or the reverse, in helping to retard our interpretation of Christianity?
13746	The natives looked at this bed into which the tigress had disappeared with considerable doubt, and one of them said,"How is anyone to go in here?"
13746	This sum would by no means be lost to the State, for does not the milk that is left in the cow go to the calf?
13746	What is the meaning of that?
13746	What is the meaning of this?
13746	What is to be done with daughters?
13746	When we turn, thirdly, to Abyssinia, what do we find?
13746	When, if ever, is it probable that this Assembly will demand for itself some direct power of controlling, or directing the Government?
13746	Why wo n''t the natives do this, and why wo n''t they do that?
13746	Why, let me ask in turn, is a cow''s tail long, and a fox''s tail bushy?
13746	[ 70] What if it did?