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“Telugu:
తిన్నయింటి వాసాలు యెన్నేవాడు”
English Translation:
A man that counts the rafters of his benefactor’s house.A story is told of a man who counted the rafters, &c., of a house in order that he might take possession of it and found his claim to it on this knowledge. Hence the term is applied to a person basely attempting to swindle another, who had befriended him, out of his property.All’s lost that’s put into a riven dish.

“Telugu:
చికిలింత ఐశ్వర్యం”
English Translation:
Grass-like prosperity.(For Chikilinta see chigirinta in No. 872.)

“Telugu:
ఏలేవాని యెద్దు పోతేనేమి, కాచేవాని కన్ను పోతేనేమి.”,”
,English Translation:
If the master’s ox be lost what is it [to the servant?]. If the watchman’s eye be lost what is it [to the master?].