બેઠક Bethak

જ્યાં હાથી તણાયા જાય, ત્યાં બકરીના ભાવ કોણ પૂછે.

jyāṁ hāthī taṇāyā jāya, tyāṁ bakarīnā bhāva kōṇa pūchē.

Literally
Where elephants are swept away, who asks the price of a goat?
What it means
When the powerful perish in a major disaster, the weak stand no chance of survival.

Also said as

  • જ્યાં શાકનું સાલ, ત્યાં નિત્ય ધમાલ.
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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