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Proverb from Pakistan

Urdu

ہاتھ کنگن کو آرسی کیا

Hāth-kaṅgan-ko ārsī kyā

“What need of a mirror to see a bracelet?”

Meaning

Something that is plain to see needs no proof. Platts: “the thing is evident of itself.”

Source

John T. Platts, A Dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi, and English (London: W. H. Allen, 1884), p. 1214, under hāth, on Digital Dictionaries of South Asia (University of Chicago)

Platts prints this proverb in romanized form. The Urdu script is the standard spelling of the same words.

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