ભવ આખે રબ્યા, ત્યારે પારકે લાકડે બળ્યા.

bhava ākhē rabyā, tyārē pārakē lākaḍē baḷyā.

Literally: Having wandered all life long, burned at last with another's wood.
What it means: Said of a destitute person who spent life in misery and depended on charity even for funeral rites.

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ગુજરાતી કહેવતસંગ્રહ (Gujarati Kahevat Sangrah) (1921) · 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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