Tamil Proverbs (1874)
“ The goddess of fortune, whose presence is a guarantee for happiness and prosperity, is said to dwell in the face of a horse of superior caste,-with the wise and good,-in all fragrant flowers,-in the tree of paradise that bestows whatever it’s votaries may desire,-in the beauty of a good and obedient wife,-in the ocean,-in the portal of a house when a marriage is being celebrated,-in a well governed country,-in grain,-in brilliant lamps and flaming torches,-in the words of the great,-with truth-speaking men,-in the arrows of Cupid,-and in vessels of milk. ”
