- Literally
- Made as an effigy of dust, it is a picture of dust.
- What it means
- Human life is fragile and bound to perish into dust.
Also said as
- ખાખમેં મીલ જાયગેં, ફીર ખાખ દામનગીર હે.
- Death defies the doctor.
- There is no medicine against death.
- Dust thou art, and to dust shalt thou return.
- Death is deaf and hears no denial.
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