ખાંડણીમાં માથું, ને ધબકારે બીહીવું શું ?

khāṁḍaṇīmāṁ māthuṁ, nē dhabakārē bīhīvuṁ śuṁ ?

Literally: Your head is in the mortar — why flinch at the pounding?
What it means: Once you are committed to the thing, there is no point shrinking from what it involves.

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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