દ્રાવિડી પ્રાણાયામ.

drāviḍī prāṇāyāma.

Literally: Dravidian breath control.
What it means: Doing a simple task in an unnecessarily roundabout and complicated way.

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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