બેઠક Bethak

હાથી તળાય ત્યાં ગધેડાં પાસંગમાં જાય.

hāthī taḷāya tyāṁ gadhēḍāṁ pāsaṁgamāṁ jāya.

Literally
Where elephants are weighed, donkeys go as counterweights.
What it means
In matters of great importance involving powerful people, insignificant individuals are of very little consequence.

Also said as

  • હાથી દરબારે, ને દીકરી ઘરબારે શોભે.
ગુજરાતી કહેવતસંગ્રહ (Gujarati Kahevat Sangrah) (1923) 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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