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Brahmins turned to the young man, and with one 
voice exclaimed, “ Is it not written in the Dhurma 
Shastra, ‘ Gain all thou canst, and that thou gainest 
keep, that which thou keepest increase, and that thou 
increasest bestow in holy sacrifice : so long shalt thou 
prosper.’ And again ; f As the vain and ridiculous see 
not their own folly in bedecking their feet with gems 
while their heads are adorned with glass, so is that 
man blindly contemptible who is content to sport with 
his riches while he has no love for charity. On the 
shoulder of such a man sits ruin.’” And with these 
appropriate words the Brahmins retired. 
Purwatti having succeeded to his father’s wealth, 
neglected not to rise daily before the sun as he had 
been commanded, and with great exactness he con- 
tinued to dispense to the priests sl tithe of what he had 
spent the day before ; until after many months, having- 
become enamoured of a very lovely woman whom he 
had observed tending cows, he abandoned himself to 
the enchantment of her beauty, and neglecting the 
young wife to whom he had been betrothed before his 
father’s death, he lavished immense sums of money 
upon his new enslaver, so that daily he was compelled 
to distribute more and more to the Brahmins. This, 
however, very speedily dissipated all his cash, and 
finding that his duty to the priest deprived him of 
much which he wished to bestow upon his favorite, 
he eluded the obligation, saying that what he gave 
away as a present could not be said to have been 
