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ಸಾಲವನು ಕೊಂಬಾಗ ಹಾಲೋಗರುಂಡಂತೆ ಸಾಲಿಗರು ಕೊಂಡು ಎಳೆವಾಗ ಕಿಬ್ಬದಿಯ ಕೀಲು ಮುರಿದಂತೆ ಸರ್ವಜ್ಞ
sālavanu kombāga hālōgaruṇḍante sāligaru koṇḍu eḷevāga kibbadiya kīlu muridante sarvajña
Taking a loan is sweet — like a meal of rice and milk. But when the lender comes to collect and drags it back from you, it is as if a rib in your side were snapped at the joint.
ಸರ್ವಜ್ಞನ ವಚನಗಳು (ತ್ರಿಪದಿಗಳು)
Anthology of Sarvajna's sayings, Kannada Sahitya Parishat (1978); also digitised on Kanaja
Digitization: Kanaja (Govt of Karnataka) / Kannada Wikisource
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This entry is part of the Wisdom Atlas open dataset, released under CC-BY-SA-4.0. Translations marked "Open Wisdom" are original to this project. Original texts are from public domain sources.