ઘી ક્યાં ઢળ્યું, તો ખીચડીમાં.

ghī kyāṁ ḍhaḷyuṁ, tō khīcaḍīmāṁ.

Literally: Where did the ghee spill? Into the rice-and-lentil dish.
What it means: A loss or expense is not truly wasted if the benefit remains within one's own family or close circle.
The English proverb Shah set beside it: It is not lost, what a friend gets.

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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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