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“ ഓടാമ്പലും സാക്ഷായും കൂടെ എന്തിനു”
English Translation:
Why have both a sliding latch bolt and a heavy padlock hasp on the same door? (Redundant precautions; piling on unnecessary safeguards where one is more than enough.)

— Malayalam

Related Mantras

“ വിരൽ ചുട്ടു കവിൾ തുളെക്കരുതു”
English Translation:
Do not burn your own finger to brand a hole in your own cheek. (Self-inflicted spite; never incur personal harm and pain merely to enact a petty, self-destructive point.)

“ പൂതൽ = ചെതുക്ക്”
English Translation:
[Linguistic gloss from source text: Clarifies that “Poothal” means decaying, rotten, or brittle spongy wood (“chethukku”), glossing proverb #1873.]

“ പറുങ്കിക്കുനന്നു, ലന്തെക്കു നഞ്ചു”
English Translation:
Nectar to the Portuguese, but lethal poison to the Dutch. (One man’s meat is another man’s poison; what benefits one party brings ruin to their rival.)