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One poison drives out another poison
Actually it happened in Mahabharata period
This proverb is in tamil too. As an anti dote to the poison , mild poisons are given in Indian medical system. விஷத்தை விஷத்தால் முறிக்கலாம்.
Homeopathy principle is also based on this fact. Like cures like. Chanakya gave Chandragupta Maurya poison every day in minute quantity so that no poison will kill him. Brahmins’ Achamana/ taking water in very small quantity — repeating the names of God- is also to cure the germs in a particular water source. They do it whenever they go to a tank or a lake or a sea or a well. The germs or chemicals in that particular water won’t affect them.
Actually it happened during Mahabaharata days. Kaurava brothers under Duryodhana were jealous of Pandava brothers, particularly Bhima was hated by them. So, they gave poison to Bhima and threw him into a lake where there were poisonous snakes. When those snakes bit Bhima his poison was nullified.
In mathematics also it is same;
Minus Multiply Minus is Plus. Negative multiplied by Negative is a positive number, which means that the product of two negative integers is always positive.
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An ass or sheep or fox in a lion or tiger’s skin.
It is in Sanskrit Panchatantra stories and Tamil Veda Tirukkural.
An ass clad in lion’s hide is in a Panchatantra story.
The ass was safe, but wearing a tiger’s hide became frightening and it was killed later because of its voice. People found out its true form.
The story went around the world and took different forms.
Panchatantra says,
Suguptam rakshyamaano ‘pi darsayam darunam vapuh
Vyaagracamarma pratichanno vaakrte raasabho hatah
Vyaagra= tiger; raasabhah= donkey or ass.
In the story of Zhsn Guo Ce- Sengokusaku , the anecdotes of the warring states, a fox was caught by a tiger. To escape, the fox said, that he had been appointed by the king of the beasts by the heavenly emperor. To prove this he maintained that all animals flee from him. As he went into the woods, followed by the tiger intending to check this statement, all the animals did flee. The tiger did not realise that he has frightened them .
In the Fan Yan= Yoshi Hogen, the Confusian Discourses, we read that a goat clothes itself in a tiger’s skin which he found in the forest. One day seeing a wolf at a distance, began to flee forgetting the tiger’s skin on itself.
In latin we have
Asinus is pelle leonis= an ass in lion’s skin.
Tamil Veda Tirukkural says,
வலியில் நிலைமையான் வல்லுருவம் பெற்றம்
புலியின்தோல் போர்த்துமேய்ந் தற்று.–குறள் 273:
As if a steer should graze wrapped round with tiger’s skin,
Is show of virtuous might when weakness lurks within.
Or
The pretentious conduct of a man who has not the firmness of mind to direct him in the path of true asceticism is likened to a cow grazing clothed in tiger’s skin.
Or
Aranganatha Mudaliyar translates this as
A sanctimonious humbug who is a veritable thrall to his vile passions like a cow that , in a tiger’s skin, grazes on other men’s meadows.
Or
In Dr S M Diaz’s translation
One who is incapable of mastering himself, trying to put on an air of strength,
Is like a cow grazing on forbidden pasture, under cover of a tiger’s skin.
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In the Bible we have,
Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves – Matt.7:15
To be continued………………..
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