ભેંસ ભાગેલ હોય, વાંસે જઈને વાડીએ;

bhēṁsa bhāgēla hōya, vāṁsē jaīnē vāḍīē;

Literally: The buffalo has run away, and they go searching for it in the orchard.
What it means: Looking for a lost object or solution in the wrong place after the event has already occurred.

Also said as

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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