કપુત દીકરા દીકરી હોય તે કરતાં વાંજીઆપણું ભલું.

kaputa dīkarā dīkarī hōya tē karatāṁ vāṁjīāpaṇuṁ bhaluṁ.

Literally: Better childlessness than worthless sons and daughters.
What it means: Bad children are worse than none.

કહેવત સમુદાય (Kahevat Samuday) · 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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