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“ കതിരേൽകൊണ്ടു വളം വെച്ച പോലെ”
English Translation:
Like applying manure directly onto the ripened ears of grain rather than at the root. (Applying resources, training, or remedies ridiculously late and at the completely wrong place.)

— Malayalam

Related Mantras

“ അരി നാഴിക്കും അടുപ്പു മൂന്നു വേണം”
English Translation:
Even to cook a single measure of rice, you still need three hearth stones. (Basic overheads and essential procedures cannot be skipped, regardless of how small the scale.)

“ നോക്കിനടക്കുന്ന വള്ളി കാൽക്കുതടഞ്ഞു”
English Translation:
The very medicinal creeper one was searching for snagged against one’s own foot. (Serendipity; stumbling upon the very solution close at hand that was sought with great effort far away.)

“ ഇരുന്നുണ്ടവൻ രുചിയറിയാ, കിളച്ചുണ്ടവൻ രുചിയറിയും”
English Translation:
The one who eats in idleness knows not the taste of rice; he who digs the soil with a hoe knows its true sweetness. (Labor sweetens food; things earned by hard sweat carry a satisfaction inherited wealth never knows.)