DOG AND THE PLANTAIN.
Dear friends
You would not have seen my postings for a week now since I was busy with my Astrology and other works. Now too mails have accumulated, I thought making a posting leaving them aside to make my presence. Today a lighter topic.
Sincerely
Gopala Krishnan 2-5-2011
1. Dog will not eat plantain.
It was about 40 years back. My elder brother was returning in the night with a bag containing some items and a bunch of plantain. He was working in the Railways at Arkonam. Suddenly a dog started approaching him in the street barking where he is residing. A person seeing this asked my brother give something from the bag, it will go away. My innocent brother took one big plantain and gave to it thinking it will relish the big plantain. After smelling it again started coming behind him. Fortunately it did not bite. My brother later told the incident to me. He was thinking the dog will eat plantain. Myself too till that date.
2. Dog will not leave plantain to cow also.
If you give a plantain to the cow it will eat. But if you give to a dog it will smell and will not eat. But if a cow comes that side and smell the plantain, the dog will bark and not permit the cow to touch it. The cow will impatiently wait for the plantain for some time and then go away. After getting distracted to something else, dog also will go. By the time cow would have gone about a kilometre away.
There is a saying in Malayalam, "Patti pazham ottu thinnatthu milla, pasuvinu ottu kodukkaukayum illa". This is to indicate the nature of some person. The thing with them is not at all useful to but may be very useful to others. They will never part with it.
3. Naikku kittiya pothiya thenga.
Once a dog was wandering. Suddenly it found a green coconut medium ripe. Dog felt the taste with the smelling power. It understood it is coconut. It simply rolled the coconut. With all force a dog cannot peel the outer cover of the coconut and then break it. If at the same time if it would have been found by a monkey, it will peel the outer thondu and broken and eat it.
If we give half a coconut after grinding 70%, it will eat with half mind or hungry with full mind. But similar to plantain, if a monkey appear dog will not part it to monkey. From this saying "Pattikku kittiya pothiya thenga" has come.
5. Dog and biscuit.
If we serve some rice a hungry dog will eat it. But it should not be with VENKAYA SAMBAR. If mixed with vengaya sambar it will smell and go away. Venkaya sambar is the most allergic to dog.
Recently for the last one year, having flat construction near, I found inconvenience in feeding rice and started feeding biscuits. When ever surplus rice was there I thought to keep it at another place. Believe it- Two dogs will come, smell and keep it. They will make some noise to intimate their presence (not barking) and relax on the gate steps. They will wait for biscuit, eat it and go away. After taking biscuits they relish from us only biscuits. Some other hungry dog or cow will eat rice.
6. Counting the number and checking size
When we break the biscuits and give, while one is given the other will wait. If one dog is given smaller pieces, it starts murmur. Then if a bigger piece is given, it stops murmur. If both are not given the biscuit pieces equally, then also it get dis satisfied.
I recollected- Once the same dogs were sharing equally. I recollected the saying Naigunam when a person is irritated for some thing or other keeping some thing in mind. There is a beautiful song in Tamil film Bharat vilas, acted by Sivaji Ganesan, KR Vijaya etc-"Nalpathu vayasil nai gunam, nam than theringu nadanthukkanam."
7.Ariyum thinnu aasarichiyem kadichu….
It appears always the dog will not be satisfied much. Once a carpenter's wife was returning after getting ration from the shop. Probably for the smell of ration rice, a dog started coming behind her as told in the story in para1.
The carpenter lady was not ready to part with the rice and started running. Finally on the chase of dog, she fell down and the rice got split in the ground.
In the hurry the dog also bite the carpenter lady. The nearby people hearing the cry of the lady rushed, finding the bite rushed her to hospital. The dog was chased away.
But after some time it returned, started eating the rice and then also murmuring not satisfied with all these.
One person was carefully listening all these things. He said- "Ariyum thinnu, asarichiyem kadichu, pinnayum naikku murumuruppu". It is a Malayalam saying about a person creating quarrel and man handlings and still murmuring, as if all these were less and not guilty!!
8. Rabbis dog and lemon.
It was the practice on olden days, if a dog has bitten a person, a lemon will be thrown identifying it. If it smells and barks away like any thing it is suspected of having rabbis. I am not sure the principle behind it, similar to plantain and vengaya sambar.
Dear friends
You would not have seen my postings for a week now since I was busy with my Astrology and other works. Now too mails have accumulated, I thought making a posting leaving them aside to make my presence. Today a lighter topic.
Sincerely
Gopala Krishnan 2-5-2011
1. Dog will not eat plantain.
It was about 40 years back. My elder brother was returning in the night with a bag containing some items and a bunch of plantain. He was working in the Railways at Arkonam. Suddenly a dog started approaching him in the street barking where he is residing. A person seeing this asked my brother give something from the bag, it will go away. My innocent brother took one big plantain and gave to it thinking it will relish the big plantain. After smelling it again started coming behind him. Fortunately it did not bite. My brother later told the incident to me. He was thinking the dog will eat plantain. Myself too till that date.
2. Dog will not leave plantain to cow also.
If you give a plantain to the cow it will eat. But if you give to a dog it will smell and will not eat. But if a cow comes that side and smell the plantain, the dog will bark and not permit the cow to touch it. The cow will impatiently wait for the plantain for some time and then go away. After getting distracted to something else, dog also will go. By the time cow would have gone about a kilometre away.
There is a saying in Malayalam, "Patti pazham ottu thinnatthu milla, pasuvinu ottu kodukkaukayum illa". This is to indicate the nature of some person. The thing with them is not at all useful to but may be very useful to others. They will never part with it.
3. Naikku kittiya pothiya thenga.
Once a dog was wandering. Suddenly it found a green coconut medium ripe. Dog felt the taste with the smelling power. It understood it is coconut. It simply rolled the coconut. With all force a dog cannot peel the outer cover of the coconut and then break it. If at the same time if it would have been found by a monkey, it will peel the outer thondu and broken and eat it.
If we give half a coconut after grinding 70%, it will eat with half mind or hungry with full mind. But similar to plantain, if a monkey appear dog will not part it to monkey. From this saying "Pattikku kittiya pothiya thenga" has come.
5. Dog and biscuit.
If we serve some rice a hungry dog will eat it. But it should not be with VENKAYA SAMBAR. If mixed with vengaya sambar it will smell and go away. Venkaya sambar is the most allergic to dog.
Recently for the last one year, having flat construction near, I found inconvenience in feeding rice and started feeding biscuits. When ever surplus rice was there I thought to keep it at another place. Believe it- Two dogs will come, smell and keep it. They will make some noise to intimate their presence (not barking) and relax on the gate steps. They will wait for biscuit, eat it and go away. After taking biscuits they relish from us only biscuits. Some other hungry dog or cow will eat rice.
6. Counting the number and checking size
When we break the biscuits and give, while one is given the other will wait. If one dog is given smaller pieces, it starts murmur. Then if a bigger piece is given, it stops murmur. If both are not given the biscuit pieces equally, then also it get dis satisfied.
I recollected- Once the same dogs were sharing equally. I recollected the saying Naigunam when a person is irritated for some thing or other keeping some thing in mind. There is a beautiful song in Tamil film Bharat vilas, acted by Sivaji Ganesan, KR Vijaya etc-"Nalpathu vayasil nai gunam, nam than theringu nadanthukkanam."
7.Ariyum thinnu aasarichiyem kadichu….
It appears always the dog will not be satisfied much. Once a carpenter's wife was returning after getting ration from the shop. Probably for the smell of ration rice, a dog started coming behind her as told in the story in para1.
The carpenter lady was not ready to part with the rice and started running. Finally on the chase of dog, she fell down and the rice got split in the ground.
In the hurry the dog also bite the carpenter lady. The nearby people hearing the cry of the lady rushed, finding the bite rushed her to hospital. The dog was chased away.
But after some time it returned, started eating the rice and then also murmuring not satisfied with all these.
One person was carefully listening all these things. He said- "Ariyum thinnu, asarichiyem kadichu, pinnayum naikku murumuruppu". It is a Malayalam saying about a person creating quarrel and man handlings and still murmuring, as if all these were less and not guilty!!
8. Rabbis dog and lemon.
It was the practice on olden days, if a dog has bitten a person, a lemon will be thrown identifying it. If it smells and barks away like any thing it is suspected of having rabbis. I am not sure the principle behind it, similar to plantain and vengaya sambar.
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