- What it means
- Left blank on purpose. The scan is damaged here and the words are not certain enough to translate — English written over a guess would hide the guess rather than fix it. The Gujarati above is what could be read.
- The English proverb Shah set beside it
- He who is born a fool is never cured.It is a bad cloth that will not take colour.You will end him, but never mend him.
Also said as
- નવ નેજા પાણી ચડે, પત્થર ન ભીંજે કાર.
- મુખ મોરે માથે મણી, ઝેર તજ્યું નહીં નાગ;
- સંગત પણ સુધર્યો નહીં, વાંકે બડે અભાગ.
- ભલા ભવે ન વીસરે, નગણા ન આવે અંત;
- કાળી ઉન ને કમાણસાં, ચડે ન દુજે રંગ.
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