Proverbs and Folklore of Kumaun and GarhwalGanga Datt Upreti Originally Published Towards The End Of 19Th Century, It Is A Rich Collections Of Proverbs, Axioms, Sayings And Phrases For Specific Occasions As Well As The Customs And Manners Out Of Which They Arise. Classified Into More Than 200 Themes. An Appendix Furnishes 114 New Proverbs. |
Contents
Ability | 1 |
Baniyas or shopkeepers 78993 | 7 |
Bribery and Gifts | 13 |
Chastity and Unchastity | 19 |
Common property | 23 |
Courage under despair | 29 |
Deferred hopes | 35 |
Dishonesty | 41 |
Irretrievable losses | 169 |
Lame excuses | 171 |
Litigation and justice | 180 |
Meanness | 188 |
Middle or moderated course | 196 |
Miser | 204 |
New compared with old | 210 |
Ones own deeds etc never bad | 217 |
Envy | 48 |
False modesty | 55 |
False hopes | 56 |
Faultfinding | 67 |
D | 79 |
Foolish ambition | 80 |
Force or compulsion | 86 |
Gods judgments | 92 |
Good words | 101 |
Health | 113 |
Ignorance | 118 |
Improper union | 124 |
Indifference | 131 |
Injustice and oppression | 137 |
38 | 145 |
Innocence | 153 |
Intoxicating drugs | 159 |
Paramours | 220 |
Perseverence and determination | 226 |
Poverty | 233 |
Prosperity and affluence | 242 |
115 | 271 |
Quarrels and Discords | 273 |
Rejoicing at others calamity | 288 |
Remedy | 299 |
Ridicule and laughter | 315 |
Secrets | 320 |
Shamelessness | 330 |
Society | 338 |
Trust and sincerity | 344 |
Ungratefulness | 350 |
Vacillation | 358 |
45 | 383 |