પર્વની ગાં—હોળી, ને મનુષ્યની ગાં—ફાળી.

parvanī gāṁ—hōḷī, nē manuṣyanī gāṁ—phāḷī.

Literally: A festival's anus is Holi, and a human's anus is split.
What it means: Holi is the grand climax of festive occasions, just as an extreme ordeal leaves a person thoroughly broken.

ગુજરાતી કહેવતસંગ્રહ (Gujarati Kahevat Sangrah) (1921) · read from the scan by machine — the Gujarati itself is unchecked · English is machine-made and nobody has checked it yet

Heard it differently, or know we've got the sense wrong? Tell us — that is exactly the kind of correction this needs.