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lasting monuments and people who laugh out the God of Love by the pride of their beauty, coldly accept the service of wealthy individuals. O sun ! Leaving aside everything else, even one's own wife does not respect her noneyless husband which causes even people well-persed in all arts and sciences to be ashamed. Even those who have been praised for a very long time, who have been play-mates for an extensive period, and even friends who have previously received numerous benefack ions, always forsake a moneyless man as if he were a cowslayer. O son ! what more can I say? Even the all powerful God of Death is loathsome in destroying a man who has become miserable by extreme poverty. Carefully realizing the distinction between a wealthy condition which is the receptacle of all virtuous quelities and poverty which to the cause of a low condition by your in-born intellect, do as you think fit. O good men ! if you are desirous of making an effort-for earning money, you have opportunities even now, because there is sorae wealth left. In case everything is los.., no one will give you even fire, 8O, what to talk about an amount of money sufficient for earning one's livelihood ?
On hearing this, Dhana-deva said: “O father! Why did you coonive at my conduct for such a long time? Have | ever disregarded your orders Have I ever adopted an improper attitude ? Have you ever seen a tige of anger on my face even when I am being si verely beaten ? That you did not even admonish me although everything belonging to our family was being wasted away. Or, what is the use of lamenting over bye-gone events? Now, do me the favour of ordering me to bring back the lost wealth which has gone away to distant lands like a wicked woman, so that you can enjoy it with great delight for a very long time. Why think about such a trivial under: taking? Dhana said :- O son! Do I not know your ability ! Do I not know that natural strength of your powerful arms ! Am I unacquainted with your energy for accomplishing whatever has been undertaken by you? I am fully aware of your
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