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ఆంధ్రలోకోక్తిచంద్రిక.

1984. విల్లూరి మర్రికింద విధి వున్నది.

Your fate is under the Banyan tree at Villûru.

( See No. 1980. )

A certain king consulting on one occasion an astrologer was told that he would in two years be hanged as a thief on the western bough of the Banyan tree at Villûru. The king laughed at this but the astrologer only replied “Your fate is under the Banyan tree at Villûru." The king afterwards believing his predictions, went far away to the Himalayas and there having caused himself to be maimed so that he could not walk, practised penance. At the expiration of the two years, Yama the god of death suddenly came and mounted the unfortunate king on a horse which flew with him through the air, and threw him under the Banyan tree at Villûru. The same night a band of robbers having plundered a Raja’s palace brought their booty and divided it under the Banyan tree. The doomed king enquired from them where he was, and having learnt to his dismay that he was at Villûru, and on the western side of the tree, he crawled round with difficulty to the eastern side. There he was found by the Raja's men, and beside him a jewel which the robbers had accidently left behind them. In vain he pleaded innocence. The Raja was informed that one of the robbers had been found, the jewel was identified, and the unfortunate king was hanged on the eastern bough. Immediately this was done the tree turned round and the astrologer’s prediction was fulfilled.

This story is told as a wonderful instance of the power of fate.

He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.

What will be, will be. (Italian)^[1]

1985. విశిరినమ్మకు బొక్కినదే కూలి.

The grinding woman’s hire is what she gobbles up.

1986. విషపాల విత్తు, నేపాలపుగింజ.

A Vishapâla seed, a Nêpâla seed.

Vishapâla is the Hoya Pendula - Nêpâla is the Physic-nut (Jatropha Curcas); in large doses the seeds are an energetic poison (Eng. Cyclop.)

Said of a person of a vicious disposition.

Che sara, sara.

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