Note 329 — Chapter XIII · THE PÁṆINI-DARŚANA.[307]
Edward B. (Edward Byles) Cowell translation
The ghaṭṭa is the place where dues and taxes are collected. Some one anxious to evade payment is going by a private way by night, but he arrives at the tax-collector's house just as day dawns and is thus caught. Hence the proverb means uddeśyásiddhi.