લડે સીપાઈ ને નામ મેળવે સરદાર.

laḍē sīpāī nē nāma mēḷavē saradāra.

Literally: The soldier fights and the commander gets the name.
What it means: The person who does the actual work often goes unrecognized, while the leader takes the credit.

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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