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the rise of merits and demirits or good and evil, the ‘hide and seek' of happiness.. and misery, goes on. Dharan was dreaming of more and more happy days in a ship full of goods. At that time the tidal waves rose high and the ship was broken to pieces. All the property was sank. Dharan managed to get hold of one log of wood. Who would worry about last wealth when the life itself is in danger ?
For many a day, the waves swung him on the Swing of Life and Death. At last he was brought on the sands of Suwarnadweep.
The Merchant community is known for greed. The instinct to earn wealth is woven in each and every nerve of their bodies. Dharan earned wealth there also. So much so, that he got prepared bricks of gold. His name was carved on each and every brick. When he collected ten thousend bricks of gold, he remembered his home. He daily went to the sea-shore :
