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Proverb from India

Hindi

जैसी करनी वैसी भरनी

Jaisī karnī vaisī bharnī

“As you do, so you pay.”

Meaning

As you sow, so shall you reap: your actions come back to you.

Source

Hardev Bahri, Learners’ Hindi-English Dictionary (1989), p. 93, entry “करनी”, Digital Dictionaries of South Asia, University of Chicago

Bahri glosses it with the English proverb “as you sow, so shall you reap.”

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