Re: aNalu kAnulu...
Rao Veluri (rveluri@smtpgate.anl.gov)
Wed, 23 Jul 97 11:36:59 CST
Sree Ravi on 7/23/97 9:03 AM writes:
"---If I am wrong here someone may correct me.---"
Yes. I would gladly do it at your request.
But, let me digress before I ramble off!
This thread shows how time flies off for me and
my contemporaries! I am constantly reminded of a couple
of lines from TSE:
I grow old ... I grow old...
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
Let me cut the digression and ramble on!!
"---The proverb I read and told by my grandfather was
" EgAnI vedhavaki dammiDi kshavaram"---"
It is the other way round. "dammiDee munDa (or vedhava) ki
yEgaaNee kshavaram." yEgaaNee is equivalent to two dammiDeelu.
1 dammiDee = 1 dammiDee
2 dammiDeelu = 1 yEgaaNee (also known as Dabbu)
3 dammiDeelu = 1 kaanee
2 kaanulu = 1 ardhaNaa
4 kaanulu = 1 aNaa
2 aNaalu = 1 bEDaa
2 bEDaalu = 1 paavalaa
4 aNaalu = 1 paavalaa
2 paavalaalu = 1 ardha roopayi
2 ardha roopaayalu = 1 roopaayi
In addition, to save metal, the government brought 'cilli kaanee'
into circulation; a kaanee with a hole in the middle!
"ee vedhava, cilli kaanee ki kooDaa koragaaDu" was a common
saying in the affluent cirkar districts!
Another correction (not intended for Sree Ravi): It was
Jalasootram rukmiNeenaatha Saastry's parody on anushTup
that referred to aNaa, etc.
Probably this may be my first post to telusaa which can be
construed as completely non-controversial!
Is it?
Best wishes
V R "the cillikaanee" Veluri