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only method eligible, is trade. Money is made in trade, in seven ways : 

 by defective weights and measures ; by false statements of price ; by the 

 lapse of deposits ; by receiving the securities of friends ; by managing 

 estates for others ; by dealing in perfumes ; and by exporting goods for 

 sale. In the first case, it is pretended that the measure is full, when it is not. 

 In the second, selling a thing for more than its worth, is the natural practice, 

 even of barbarians. While a deposit is in his house, the merchant prays to 

 the gods that the owner may die, when he will make them suitable offerings. 

 When a trader sees an acquaintance coming to borrow, he pretends to 

 lament his misfortune, but is inwardly delighted. In the management of 

 estates is the reflection, I have got hold of lands full of treasui'e. Of all 

 goods,* perfumes are the best : gold is not to be compared to the article 

 which is procured for one, and is parted with for a thousand. Exporting 

 commodities is the proper business of persons already wealthy ; as it is said, 

 ' Those who are wealthy are heard of from afar.' Riches are attracted by 

 riches, as wild elephants are caught by tame ones. Capital is multiplied 

 twice and thrice over, in repeatedlj' buying and selling, by those who have 

 knowledge, and travel to other lands. The idle and weak alone, are afraid 

 of foreign countries. ' Crows, deer, and dastards, die in their native 

 place.' 



Having thus reflected, the four friends determined to quit their home, 

 and set off together on travel. The man, whose mind is intent on wealth, 

 leaves his friend and family, his mother and his natal soil, and roams to 

 foreign and ungenial lands, without a moment's hesitation. After some 

 days, the Brdhmans arrived at Ava7iti {Ujjayaii), where they bathed in the 

 Siprd, and worshipped Mahdkdla ;t after which they proceeded, and met 

 with a Yogi named BhairavAnanda, with whom they formed an acquain- 

 tance, and who invited them to his abode. He inquired of them the 

 purpose of their journey. They said, they were pilgrims in search of 

 magic power, repairing to the shrine where wealth or death awaited thenl ; 

 as it is said ; ' The water that falls from Heaven, may sometimes flow in 

 the realms below the earth. The force of fate is inconceivable, and man 



* See remarks at the close of this Essay. 

 t One of the twelve great Lindas, and well known to have been especially worshipped at 

 mi".'/'"'- Tills Liiiga was destroyed by Atlamdk, in 1231. 

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