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30 One Thousand Proverbs on Women, Wives and Daughters- part 30
Why do I publish 1000 proverbs on women collected from different cultures? This is to teach a lesson to the Anti Manu Smrti idiots in the universities. Millions of women were burnt alive during the witch hunting by Christians. But the world knows only one Joan of Arc. In the whole wide world, greatest Tamil poet Bharati is the only one who never criticised women but praised them sky-high. Next comes Manu Smriti.
Here is what Manu says:
यत्र नार्यस्तु पूज्यन्ते रमन्ते तत्र देवताः ।
यत्रैतास्तु न पूज्यन्ते सर्वास्तत्राफलाः क्रियाः ॥ ५६ ॥
yatra nāryastu pūjyante ramante tatra devatāḥ |
yatraitāstu na pūjyante sarvāstatrāphalāḥ kriyāḥ || 56 ||
Where women are honoured, there the gods rejoice; where, on the other hand, they are not honoured, there all rites are fruitless.—(56)
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शोचन्ति जामयो यत्र विनश्यत्याशु तत् कुलम् ।
न शोचन्ति तु यत्रैता वर्धते तद् हि सर्वदा ॥ ५७ ॥
śocanti jāmayo yatra vinaśyatyāśu tat kulam |
na śocanti tu yatraitā vardhate tad hi sarvadā || 57 ||
Where the female relations live in grief, the family soon wholly perishes; but that family where they are not unhappy ever prospers.—(57)
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जामयो यानि गेहानि शपन्त्यप्रतिपूजिताः ।
तानि कृत्याहतानीव विनश्यन्ति समन्ततः ॥ ५८ ॥
jāmayo yāni gehāni śapantyapratipūjitāḥ |tāni kṛtyāhatānīva vinaśyanti samantataḥ || 58 ||
The houses on which female relations, not being duly honoured, pronounce a curse, perish completely, as if destroyed by magic.—(58)
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तस्मादेताः सदा पूज्या भूषणाच्छादनाशनैः ।
भूतिकामैर्नरैर्नित्यं सत्कारेषूत्सवेषु च ॥ ५९ ॥
tasmādetāḥ sadā pūjyā bhūṣaṇācchādanāśanaiḥ |
bhūtikāmairnarairnityaṃ satkāreṣūtsaveṣu ca || 59 ||
Hence men who seek (their own) welfare, should always honour women on holidays and festivals with (gifts of) ornaments, clothes, and (dainty) food.—(59)
(Manu also said women’s all body parts are always pure)
901.
A good husband may have a bad wife, and a bad husband may have a good wife.
When a faithful wife finds a good thing, she will keep it for her husband.
Hunger is preferrable to eating food given without good feeling, a demoness is better than an unkind wife.
A hasty man loses the produce of this field, and the jealous man his wife.
It is said that the wife of a mat-maker died on the bare ground.
Like obtaining a wife for Ganesha.
A sumptuous cloth is not required in one’s native village, nor a tali where one is known as a wife.
Like the younger brother of the husband, rebuking him for beating his wife.
As the man who had no wife embraced a demoness.
A cuff for the man who left his wife at her mother’s.
911
Fettered with a wife, and muzzled with a child.
Enough of taking a wife and suffering the consequences.
Having gone to take a wife, can you turn back because marriage is expensive?
For a wife, a mother-in-law, for a boy, a tutor.
Did she give one a wife, or did she give one her eye ?
Are you content to lose your mother in order to pardon your wife?
Having married a wife the boy has become a fool, having given birth to a child the damsel has become mean in appearance.
Not knowing that his wife is affected with dropsy, he has fixed upon a day for the performance of her simantham ceremony.
A ceremony relating to the first pregnancy, including bathing, the parting of the hair in the middle of the forehead, putting jewels, &c., &c
One may take a demon but not take a wife.
921
It is said that when a brahman who was equal to a mountain was dying, his wife was weeping for his tuft of hair.
A wife gets up before day-break and looks after her domestic affairs.
Do not disclose your secrets to your wife, nor trust an enemy at any time.
A stubborn wife, a mat rolled up.
The one that nursed and brought up the child is Mudevi, the wife is Shridevi.
(Goddess of wealth= Sri Devi; Goddess of Misfortune= Muudevi.)
A bamboo mat, and an obstinate wife.
Live with your wife.
She who was looking at the mouth, became a widow : and he who watched the house, lost his wife.
If in the house she is bell-metal wife, if she goes abroad, she is a slumbering wife.
A wife gives beauty to a house.
931.
Another name for a wife is the mistress of the house.
The wife is a margosa tree, the mistress sugar-cane.
Enjoy the convenience of a house after building it, and the happiness of the conjugal state, after marrying a wife.(meaning is Both are difficult to do)
Shame in a prostitute, and want of modesty in a wife, are equally out of place.
Are a maid servant and a wife, on an equality?
A wife not liked offends, whether she touches with the hand, or with the foot.
Being without work, the barber is said to have shaved his wife’s head.
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PROVERBS ON DAUGHTERS
Having ascertained the character of the family give your daughter.
Though again and again forbidden, Patti-a strumpet-brought forth only daughters.
941.
The daughter reproached her mother and went astray.
Look at the mother before you take her daughter in marriage.
If the mother leaps seven feet, the daughter leaps eight.
That which is the mother’s, is the daughter’s.
This may refer to prosperity, temper, &c.
Can the conception of an unmarried daughter be concealed from her mother?
The mother is dead, the daughter is destitute.
Who will approve of a daughter that is undutiful to her own mother?
She herself desires to prosper, and wishes that her first-born daughter may become a widow.
Daughter, if you find him rich, cling to hire.
O, my daughter-in-law, who art – entertaining me sumptuously, I dreamt that thou wast being dissected by a pariah.
951.
Give alms to the worthy, and your daughter to one of a good family.
Do you propose giving your daughter in marriage to one who came to ask alms?
The rat lives to see its grand-sons and grand-daughters in a place where there is a cat.
Though the daughter-in-law is made of gold, she must have a mother-in-law made of earth.
The mother, having given advice to her daughter, played the harlot.
The daughter is dead, the mother is become destitute.
If the daughter die her remains are regarded as a pinam; if the son, his corpse is a savam.
No matter if my son should die, it will suffice if the arrogance of my daughter-in-law is checked.
If broken by the mother-in-law it is an earthen vessel, if by the daughter-in-law, it is a golden vessel.
Like the wailing of a daughter-in-law, on account of the death of her mother-in-law.
961.
When the daughter who lives in affluence pays a visit, let her be seated on a fine mạt; when she who is reduced to poverty comes seat her on an old ma
Why, my daughter, are you crying there for kanji ? come hither and you may fly as the wind.
Spoken of a proffered change which may be for the worse.
If my elder brother has a daughter, my paternal aunt becomes an alien.
While the hawk snatches away the father’s waist-cloth his daughter is crying for a silk dress.
Said in reproof when wishes are entertained beyond one’s means.
Why enquire after the relationship of the daughter of one’s maternal uncle ?
unexceptionable course of life gave his daughter in marriage to the village Pariah.
No matter how skilled a woman may be in numbers and letters, her judgment will be second rate.
971.
My daughter bathes once a week, my son-in-law bathes at depaveli (once a year).
My daughter, why is your hand in the basket while you embrace and weep?
-Tamil Proverbs
To be continued……………………..
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