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“Telugu:
ఉపాధ్యాయులవారూ, ఉక్తం ఉక్తం”
English Translation:
O teacher, uktam! uktam !Said by a school-boy when he saw a board about to fall on his master’s head. He had been taught to render the Sanscrit word Uktam by Palaka baddadi (“it was said”). These words also signify “ the board has fallen,”” which the boy took to be the correct meaning of the Sanscrit word.