SOME ASSAMESE PROVERBS.
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Class I.
PROVERBS RELATING TO HUMAN FAILINGS, FOIBLES, AND VICES.
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1. Anger, affectation, boasting, conceit, etc.
কি নো ভমকৰ তালি, ভাল খন থৈ ফটা খন পালি।
Ki no bhamakar táli, bhál khan thai phatá khan páli.
What a repetition of anger, you have put down the good one
and picked up the torn one.
This is addressed to a person who is in a great rage, and who is so angry that he puts down the good cloth he has in his hand, and takes up a torn one instead.
ভমক (bhamak) signifies the sudden rising of anger. It is also applied to a fire which suddenly blazes up.
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2. Boasting.
ফোপ দাঙ্গ ধান নাইকিয়া সুদা চাঙ্গ্।
Phop dáng dhán náikiyá sudá cháng.
You boaster—you have no paddy and your chang is empty.
The term ফোপ্ দাঙ্গ is applied to a man who boasts about nothing. নাইকিয়া (náikiyá) literally is not. চাঙ্গ (cháng) is the platform inside the ভৰাল (bharál) or granary.</poem>}}
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3. Forgetfulness.
পাহৰি আছিলো পরিল মনত
পাঁচ বৰণীয়া পটা আছে ৰাৱণৰ ঘৰত।
Páhari áchhilo paril manat,
Pánch baraniyá patá áchhe Ráwanar gharat.
I had forgotten it, and then I remembered,
It was a five-coloured stone in the housa of Ráwan.
