This work is evaluated with the precision, recall and F1-score and achieved 92% of precision, 87% of recall and 89% of F1-Score. In the proposed research, the proverb dataset is created and the meanings of the Tamil proverbs are automatically extracted by contextual analysis. There is no state of the art technique to extract the meaning of the Tamil proverbs till now. The Tamil proverbs have many nuggets hidden, which need to be explored for the goodness of the society. Many Tamil proverbs are misunderstood by the global society and explanation is not known for vast amount of Tamil proverbs. The current Tamil generation does not know the cultural values of proverbs as they are oral and passed on from one generation to the other by word of mouth. The Tamil proverbs are treasure of Tamil language, as they are crisp and easy to remember the advice, awareness and knowledge embedded in it.
