કાણે કહ્યું હતું કે બેટા બાવળીએ ચડજો?

kāṇē kahyuṁ hatuṁ kē bēṭā bāvaḷīē caḍajō?

Literally: Who told you, son, to climb the acacia tree?
What it means: Spoken to someone who brought pain upon themselves by taking on an unnecessary and dangerous task.

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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