1

Better befriend a barking dog
Than be friends with a Tamil,
Crocodile's mouth is safer
Than thorntree shade.

2

Forcefruit green mango by squeezing;
Profit from peddling your wars by foot;
Pain eyes from crying for the dead
Are all in vain.

3

A town without fellowship;
A house without children;
A merchant without records;
Walkways to woe.

4

Donkey is not for riding;
Whore is not for heirs;
Think Before you Jump
Naked into the lake.

5

A meal without salt;
Wife without breasts;
Chewing the tip of a sugarcane;
Are all insipid.

Sarvajna

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