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  2. List of Tamil proverbs - Wikipedia

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    The List of Tamil Proverbs consists of some of the commonly used by Tamil people and their diaspora all over the world. [1] There were thousands and thousands of proverbs were used by Tamil people, it is harder to list all in one single article, the list shows a few proverbs.

  3. Category:Proverbs by language - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Proverbs by language" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. ... List of Tamil proverbs; Lugbara proverbs; M. Meitei ...

  4. File:Tamil proverbs.pdf - Wikipedia

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    This file is in PDF format. Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format created by Adobe Systems for document exchange.PDF is used for representing two-dimensional documents in a manner independent of the application software, hardware, and operating system.

  5. Sangam literature - Wikipedia

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    Sculpture of the Ancient Tamil Siddhar Agastyar who is traditionally believed to have chaired the first Tamil Sangam in Madurai. The Sangam literature (Tamil: சங்க இலக்கியம், caṅka ilakkiyam), historically known as 'the poetry of the noble ones' (Tamil: சான்றோர் செய்யுள், Cāṉṟōr ceyyuḷ), [1] connotes the early classical Tamil ...

  6. Kural - Wikipedia

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    In 1968, the Tamil Nadu government made it mandatory to display a Kural couplet in all government buses. The train running a distance of 2,921 kilometers between Kanyakumari and New Delhi is named by the Indian Railways as the Thirukural Express. [269] The Kural is part of Tamil people's everyday life across the global Tamil diaspora. K.

  7. John Lazarus (missionary) - Wikipedia

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    The Dictionary of Tamil Proverbs contained 10,000 proverbs which remains the most complete collection ever made. Being a Christian missionary, Lazarus, too, like G. U. Pope, initially claimed that Valluvar's ideas were partly influenced by Christianity. However, he later denied Pope's claim by saying the Kural portrays no traces of ...

  8. Peter Percival - Wikipedia

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    After having published the Tamil translation of the Bible, he wrote the book Land of the Veda: India Briefly Described in some of its Aspects, Physical, Social, Intellectual and Moral. His other publications include, a book on Tamil proverbs in English, English-Tamil and English-Telugu dictionaries, and a bilingual Tamil and Telugu journal ...

  9. Paremiography - Wikipedia

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    Books of proverb collections, examples of paremiography. Paremiography (from Greek παροιμία - paroimía, "proverb, maxim, saw" [1] and γράφω - grafō, "write, inscribe" [2]) is the study of the collection and writing of proverbs.