બેઠક Bethak

બારે ખુધ, સોળે સાન, વીશે વાન, ત્રીશે જુવાન, ચાળીશે પુરે,

bārē khudha, sōḷē sāna, vīśē vāna, trīśē juvāna, cāḷīśē purē,

Literally
Sense at twelve, wisdom at sixteen, beauty at twenty, youth at thirty, complete at forty.
What it means
Human development, maturity, and physical peak progress through specific stages of life.

Also said as

  • પચાસે ઉતર્યો;
  • સાહાઠે બુદ્ધિ નાઠી, સીતેર વરસના ધરડા, છોકરાં કહે કાં નથી મરતા ટરડા.
ગુજરાતી કહેવતસંગ્રહ (Gujarati Kahevat Sangrah) (1923) · read from the scan by machine — the Gujarati itself is unchecked · English is machine-made and nobody has checked it yet

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