માથે બહુ દુ:ખ પડે ત્યારે વપરાતાં વાક્યો.

māthē bahu du:kha paḍē tyārē vaparātāṁ vākyō.

Literally: Sentences used when great suffering falls on the head.
What it means: Extreme hardship is often described through metaphors of being burdened.

Also said as

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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