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that he was a fortunate man invited him for dinner. Dhanya Śétha said: I do not eat of any body without rendering him any service-The owner of the field said :-- If such is your Vow, then you do the work with my plough. After going for a call of nature, I will come back and then both of us will dine together." Saying so, he gave him the plough and went away Dhanya Sètha drove the plough for seven or eight paces and then the plough got stuck into the ground. When however Dhanya Śétha tried to pull out the plough with great force, a heavy clod of earth came out with it and there was a large opening in the ground. On bending down, he saw gold worth several crores in a pit on the ground. Dhanya Śétha gave the entire gold-wealth to the farmer but he did not have the least desire for it. Then, after repeated requests Dhanya Śétha took dinner with him and leaving the entire gold-wealth with the farmer, he went away. Sixthly-The king called merchants of the town, to his presence with the object of selling to them, the unclaimed merchandise of traders who had gone on long distance voyages, saying to them “You take away the merchandise and pay to me at the the market rates of the town :--The merchants met and after mutual consultation they decided that the merchandise should be divided into as many parts as there were merchants on the list and each merchant should pay accordingly. An invitation was sent to Dhanasāra to take charge of his part. Dhanya $étha was sent by his father-Dhanya Śétha carefully examined all the different articles of the merchandise add by his knowledge of various arts and sciences and by his own cleverness of intellect he noticed that there several hundreds of pots filled with tejamaturi-( alkaline gold-dust) but the merchants who had dealings of various kinds of merchandise, and who were proud of their keen intellect of the source of produce and sale of various articles of merchandise did not notice them They thought that those pots were only filled with some alkaline earth and through cunningness and a feeling of animosity they tried to cheat Dhanya Śétha with sweet words by giving him the pots which they tho
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