Window To Our Culture - Proverbs & Sayings

[Bodhi]

<b>koli ka ghar jalay, kalandar maangai gannaa!</b>

{While this fellow's house is burning, alms-beggar is pestering him for a sugarcane.} <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->

1. Wrong timing.
2. Own's interest is seen supreme for everyone.

old urdu-hindi from around Delhi area.

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The below google book has collected a lot of proverbs from medieval North India. Claims to have a lot of proverbs in Khadi-boli, Urdu, Marwadi, Punjabi, Magadhi, and Bhojpuri etc.

A dictionary of hindustani proverbs By S. W. Fallon