કરમ વના ખેતી કરે, બલદ મરે સુકવણી પડે.

karama vanā khētī karē, balada marē sukavaṇī paḍē.

Literally: Farm without luck and the ox dies, the drought comes.
What it means: Without fortune behind it, honest labour still ends in loss.

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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