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Tamil Proverbs

Tamil Proverbs (1874)
translated by Peter Percival
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TAMIL PROVERBS

WITH THEIR

ENGLISH TRANSLATION.

CONTAINING

UPWARDS OF SIX THOUSAND PROVERBS.

BY THE

REV. P. PERCIVAL,
Chaplain, Madras Military Female Orphan Asylum:
Author of the Land of the Veda, &c.

SECOND EDITION.

MADRAS:

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED AT THE DINAVARTAMANI PRESS,
LITTLE BOURNE, MYLAPORE.

1874

Chapters (not listed in original)

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