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“ അങ്ങാടിത്തോലിയം അമ്മയോടൊ?”
English Translation:
Taking out your defeat in the marketplace on your own mother? (Venting outside failures and public shame on family at home.)

— Malayalam

Related Mantras

“ വേകുവോളം ഇരിക്കാമെങ്കിൽ ആറുവോളം ഇരിക്കരുതൊ”
English Translation:
If you had the patience to wait while it cooked, can you not wait until it cools? (Having endured the long, difficult toil of an enterprise, do not spoil everything through hasty impatience at the very finish line.)

“ ശൂരിമേൽ വാഴവീണാലും വാഴമേൽ ശൂരി വീണാലും വാഴെക്കുകേടു”
English Translation:
Whether the plantain stem falls upon the dagger or the dagger falls upon the plantain, the injury is always to the plantain. (The weak and defenseless always suffer the damage when colliding with sharp, ruthless power, regardless of who initiated the contact.)

“ കുടുമയ്ക്ക് മീതെ മർമ്മം ഇല്ല”
English Translation:
There is no vital pressure point higher than the hair knot on the crown. (There is no authority higher than the supreme limit; you have reached the ultimate end.)