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He contemplated, “Oh, this seems to be a metal-field; so I shall here prepare gold. He made bricks and marked them with the name of Dharana and while they were moist, he made blocks and when he baked them, they became gold ones. Thus he made [39] ten thousand blocks of bricks. Then he tied the separate halves of the boat.
From China, a ship belonging to mer. chant-son Suvadana filled with useless merchandise came to that part of land. It belonged to the town of Devapura and it had taken up Laxmi while it touched another island. And the merchant-son saw the broken halves of the boat. The anchors were cast by the order of Suvadana. The sailors came. They saw Dharana and said, “O great man, the merchant-son named Suvadana, the inhabi. tant of China, who belongs to the town of Devapura is waiting in the ship and asks you to come. We are going to the shore." Dharana said, "What is that ship filled with?” The sailors said, “O good sir, that merchant-son has run down in prosperity due to his fate, but not in manhood. His ship therefore is not filled well with precious
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