ન રહે આય તો શું કરે માને બાપ.

na rahē āya tō śuṁ karē mānē bāpa.

Literally: If there is no life, what can the mother and father do?
What it means: There are limits to what parents can do for their children if fate or death intervenes.

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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