“Tamil:
இரும்பு துறட்டுக்கு அசையாத புளியங்காய் திருப்பாட்டுக்கு அசையுமா?”
“English Translation:
Will the tamarind fruit that has resisted an iron hook shake at a sacred song?In illustration of this proverb the following may not be considered irrelevant. In the year 1826 when I went to my first Missionary station, Trincomalee on the Eastern coast of Ceylon, I called on the chief Mudaliar to pay my respects and to urge the claims of Christianity. The old gentleman who remembered the coercive system adopted by the Dutch for the propagation of Christianity, and well knowing too that Missionaries under the mild sway of Great Britain can use no weapon but the Gospel, uttered with great animation the above proverb. In view of the youthful character of his visitor he seemed to feel like Goliath in the presence of David.”,