બેઠક Bethak

સો લાવીએ રાંડી, પણ એક ન લાવીએ છાંડી.

sō lāvīē rāṁḍī, paṇa ēka na lāvīē chāṁḍī.

Literally
Bring a hundred widows, but do not bring one divorced woman.
What it means
A warning against marrying a woman who has abandoned or been abandoned by her husband, suggesting she is far more troublesome than a widow.
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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