હાથી મરે ત્યાંજ દટાય.

hāthī marē tyāṁja daṭāya.

Literally: Where the elephant dies, there it gets buried.
What it means: Great figures or huge matters are dealt with on the very spot where they fall.

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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