સાજં ખાય અન્ન ને માંદા ખાય ધન.

sājaṁ khāya anna nē māṁdā khāya dhana.

Literally: The healthy eat food, and the sick eat wealth.
What it means: Illness is extremely expensive, consuming all of one's savings on treatments and medicine.

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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