બેઠક Bethak

ગરીબની દીકરી મુઈ, તે કાઈએ જાણ્યું નહીં.

garībanī dīkarī muī, tē kāīē jāṇyuṁ nahīṁ.

Literally
When the poor man's daughter died, nobody knew.
What it means
The misfortunes and losses of the poor go completely unnoticed by society.

Also said as

  • પૈસાવાળાનાં જીવતાં હોય, તા તાલેવંતનાં મરે નહીં, ને ગરીબને ઓરતા થાત.
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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