Proverbs and wise sayings in relation to rice from India- Common sayings seem to be the rice roots of any culture. Handled down over generations orally from one to another with their own spin, they can give us insights into worldview.
Traditional values have disappeared or are changed over time, but some proverbs that explicate moral and spiritual wisdom remain with the people. Still told to help educate and pass wisdom down from one to another, they teach a message of behavior or give philosophical wisdom.
They have been defined as the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
Although sayings, like proverbs and maxim may be highly believed and are current in the same culture they ironically often contradict each other.
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Bhator tita khabo pari kintu mator tita sahibo noari
Food items with bitter taste can be eaten (with rice). But bitter words cannot be endured.
Jar dhan ache, tar sah ache
Jar dhan nai, tar man nai
If you have a good store of rice, you have courage; If you have no stock (of rice), you have no prestige
Jar dhan nai, tar jat nai
Jar dhan ache, tar man ache
If you have no rice, you have no caste If you have rice, you have prestige
Tomar barir bahn gaj, tare karisho kharisa
Tomate salai dhan don loun, kathato mon korisa
I have made prickle from your bamboo groves, I have bartered this basketful of rice from you
Have you marked it or not?
Manuhtoe prati monto, dhantoe prati konto
Many a man many a mind, every rice husk contains a grain
Prathame saul kotha, pisothe Hari kotha
Find out your rice first (for sustenance) and then only turn to God
Ahuehe akal tare
Ahu (a kind of rice class) rice cultivation alone can rescue you from duary days of famine
Edotia hatie pasie pasie dhan khai
Single tusked elephants consume rice in great abundance
Dhano dhon, sono dhon
Dhan nahole jibonei britha
Gold is wealth, rice is wealth as well But without rice life has no sustenance
Bhokot bhat, piahot pani
Take rice in your hunger As you drink water in your thirst
Jani gaba.jagi suba, basi dhan sisiba
Sing when you acquire notes (of music) keep alert when you sleep Sow paddy (rice) ascertaining your choice
Dhan kotar pisor nora aruji morar pisor jowain ekei
son-in-law after the death of the daughter Is equivalent to stubble left in a rice field
Dhan lobajukhi, dhon loba goni
Buy rice weighing properly, Receive money counting properly
Dhanpuria kothal pator majat lukai
Jackfruit of the size of rice weighing basket too Is hidden under the leaves
Dhan pake mane tunir moron
Tuni birds have hard days ahead as the harvest time comes closer
Kona hahnak potan dia
It is not good to cheat a blind duck by giving blighted chaffy without a grain
Dhon sampad dhan kheror juir dore
Wealth is as transitory as the flame of dry hay
Jiai thakote dhane rakhibo, morote eta gathe paba
Rice sustains you when you live, but you will get your grave alone when you die
Ranga matie bhal dhanor fasal nidie,
bahut dhair majot kesuar janmo nohoy
Brown earth does not yield better rice crops, child birth is hazardous amidst diverse nurses
Ame ban, kothale dhan
Enormous production of mangoes indicates flood, enormous production of jackfruits indicates good rice crops
Kothat kotha bahe, khorikat bahe kan
makor ghorot jiory bahe, potharot bahe dhan
Words lead on to words thatch-end puts to ear-lobe widens the hole girls grow up in mothers’ house
while rice grows up in the fields
Pube dhenu dhan, pashime dhenu ban
Rainbow in the eastern sky indicates higher crops of rice while rainbow in the western sky indicates flood
Soha manuhor boha kotha, pua godhuli saul kotha
Rustics waste away their time in idle gossips, Their only hankering in the morning or in the evening Is after a bowlful of rice
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Works Cited & Multimedia Sources
- THE MOTHER GODDESS OF FERTILITY AND RICE
- TIMELINE: The story of rice
- MALAYSIA: The Rice Soul- Myths, History and Folklore of RICE Beras or Nasi
- MALAYSIA: Proverbs and wise sayings in relation to RICE Beras or Nasi
- CHINA: Proverbs and wise sayings in relation to RICE 稻
- CHINA: On the origin of Rice 稻 – Myths, History and Folklore
- THAILAND: Mae Posop- Myths, History and Folklore of RICE
- THAILAND: Proverbs and wise sayings in relation to RICE K̄ĥāw
- INDIA: Myths, History and Folklore of RICE
- INDIA: RICE dishes Khichri, Byriani, Kheer, Dosa &Idlly
- INDONESIA: Myths, History and Folklore of RICE Nasi
- BALI- INDONESIA: Myths, History and Folklore of RICE Nasi
- INDONESIA: FOLK TALES ON RICE
- INDIA: FOLK TALES ON RICE
- CHINA : FOLK TALES ON RICE 稻
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