"A crow when it sees some foodstuff, it crows, gathers other crows and shares it with them. Crows and fowl have a better social etiquette than a man."
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Sarvajna
Sarvajña (Sanskrit for "all-knowing", Kannada: ಸರ್ವಜ್ಞ) was poet, moralist, philosopher and saint who is conjectured to have lived in the late 16th century (1570) in Karnataka, India. His real name is inferred as Pushpadatta and his pseudonym as Sarvajna. His fame is attributed to his pithy three-liner poems which are called tripadis. There are in the form of Vachanas meaning “that which is said". Sarvagna was a wandering monk who wrote the Tripadis; about 2000 three-liners are attributed to him
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