દામ ખોટું તો પરખનાર શું કરે.

dāma khōṭuṁ tō parakhanāra śuṁ karē.

Literally: If the price is fake, what can the appraiser do?
What it means: One cannot extract value from something that is inherently worthless.

કહેવત સમુદાય (Kahevat Samuday) · 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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