બેઠક Bethak

માણસથી માછાં ભલાં, સાચી પ્રીતજ જાણ;

māṇasathī māchāṁ bhalāṁ, sācī prītaja jāṇa;

Literally
Fish are better than humans, know this to be true love.
What it means
Fish demonstrate the truest form of love because they cannot survive even a moment of separation from water.

Also said as

  • જે પાડે જળ જુવવાં, નિશ્ચે છાંડે પ્રાણ.
ગુજરાતી કહેવતસંગ્રહ (Gujarati Kahevat Sangrah) (1923) · 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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