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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/malayalam/article/elephant.mm b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/malayalam/article/elephant.mm new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..052d1f0d0a8 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/malayalam/article/elephant.mm @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +% elephant.mm -- The old fable of the blind men and the elephant +% last edit: 04-APR-1993 + +\input mmmacs +\input ornament +\parindent=0pt +\emergencystretch=50pt + +\centerline{{\twelvebf The blind men and the elephant}} +\medskip +\centerline{{\it An old fable}\footnote*{taken from Frohnmeyer, p.182}} +\ornline{\Sine} + +$cila janmaandhanmar (piRavikkuruTanmaar) yad.rcchayaa oru svalattu vannukuTi tan"n"aL{}kku +oru aanaye kaaNiccu koTukkeeNamenn oru aanappaappaanooTu taatpayyattooTe aapee +kSiccatinnu avan: parishoodhiccu pooykkoL{}vinennu paRan~n~u. aanayuTe kaal +tappinookkiya kuruTanum atinRe tunbikkai taTavinookkiya veroru kuruTanum +atinRe cethi tapooTinookkiya maRRooruttanum atinRe vaal toTTunookkiya +maRReeyavanum at nallatennu paRan~n~u. ivvaNNam aanaye parishoodhanakazhicca sheeSam +avar pookamvazhiyil anyoonyom aanayuTe mahiMayekkooNTu paRavaan tuTan"n"i. kaal +tappi nookkiyavan aan uralpoolee ennum inbikkai taTavinookkiyavan atu ulakkapoolee +ennum vaal tooTTunookkiyavan atu cuul (maaccil) poolee ennum cevi +talooTi yavan atu muRampoolee ennum paRan~n~u. in"n"inee anyoonyam vipariitamaayi +colli tiiraatta shaNThayiTTu naTannu.\par$ + +\ornline{\Sine} + +Some men, all blind from their birth, (happening) to be together at one place, requested +earnestly of an elephant-driver to show them an elephant. He said: examine it, and be off. +It is a fine thing, said one blind man, feeling the elephant's leg; (so said) another blind +man stroking his trunk, (so said) another passing his hand over the ear, (so said) another +thouching his tail. Having thus examined the elephant, as they went away, they began to +speak to one another of the greatness of the elephant. He that had felt the leg said the +elephant was like a mortar for poundig rice. He that felt the trunk, that it was like +a pestle or rice-beater; he that had touched the tail, that it was like a broom, and he that +had stroked the ear, that it was like a winnowing fan. Thus they went on quarrelling +without end, each declaring the contrary to the other. + +\ornline{\Orn} + +\bye |