Wednesday, November 29, 2006

A Marathi proverb           [gyan]

Do not look for the source of a river
nor the ancestry of a rishi

per: Water and Womanhood ... Maharashtra (1995)

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The origins of this proverb is either Kannada or prevalent in Kannada. In any case it goes thus:
nadiii moola rishii moola huDuka beDaa

nadii - river
moola - source
huDuka - root verb huDukuu (to search)
beDaa - do not

Sun Jan 20, 09:52:00 PM PST  

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