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Proverb from Nepal

Nepali

जसले मह काढ्छ, उसले हात चाट्छ।

Jasle maha kāḍhcha, usle hāt cāṭcha.

“Whoever extracts the honey licks the hand.”

Meaning

Whoever handles something good gets a taste of it. Schmidt: “whoever extracts the honey licks the hand [proverb].”

Source

Ruth Laila Schmidt, A Practical Dictionary of Modern Nepali (Ratna Sagar, 1993), p. 510, under मह काढ्नु, on Digital Dictionaries of South Asia (University of Chicago)

Schmidt prints this proverb in romanized form. The Devanagari is the standard spelling of the same words.

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