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satisfied ! Oh, I am fortunate ! Oh, how good my life has been ! Oh, my birth is well-fulfilled I [54] For, even such a great man, who is veritably a desire-yielding tree of all beings, and who is the desire-yielding jewel of three worlds, requests me!'-said “O dear one, even if you beg of me my own wife along with my sons and servants for the purpose of making them your slaves, still I, being attracted by your action beho. ving a great man, will not break your request.” Dharana said, “ Sire, if it is so, then give me three promises.” Having smiled a little, merchant Toppa said, “Dear one, who will be able to control a person who breaks one promise, in breaking three promises.' He then gave him three promi. ses. Having said, Sire, 'I am favoured,' he asked the treasurer of merchant Toppa to hand over those thousand priceless jewels deposited into his custody,—the jewels which were given by Vidyadhara Hemakundala. Then he (i. e, the treasurer) having taken them handed them over saying, 'Whatever the respected one orders.' Then having taken half of them
