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“Telugu:
ఎవరు యేమి చేశినా, యింటికి ఆలు అవుతుందా, దొంతికి కడవ అవుతుందా.”,”
,English Translation:
Will any service rendered by another be as a wife to the house or a pot for the pile?Said by a man whose wife has died or gone astray.

“Telugu:
అందరికి నేను లోకువ, నాకు నంబి రామాయ లోకువ”
English Translation:
I am below all, but Nambi Ramaya is below me.

“Telugu:
నాకోడీ కుంపటీ లేకపోతే, యేలాగు తెల్లవారుతున్నది”
English Translation:
If it were not for my cock and chafing-dish, how would the world go round’!(sum. 150.)A story is told of an old woman who fancied that the crowing of her cock woke the whole village, and that all the inhabitants were dependent on her for fire.Daylight will come, though {he cock do not crow. (Dmhh. )’