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ground a very low king of use of wealth. Owing to his miserly nature, he did not give anything in charity. He himself also did not eat or drink well. Wealth is said to have three kinds of use charity, personal use and enjoyment and burial. There three uses are called respectively the best, medium and the lowest uses. It is obvious that only fools and indiscreet persons ado"pt the lowest course.
Although Vrudhdhdatt was the owner of immeasurable wealth, he had no issue. The Sheth intensely desired to have a son. He desired to have a son for the reason that he would help him in his trade so that the father and the son would together earn plenty of money. However, the ungratified instinct of motherhood of Shethani Kautukvati often rose up. She was thinking thus : “Even if a daughter at least instead of a son were born to me, I would be saved from the stain of childlessness.” But nothing happens by keeping
