1.3. The Fall And Rise of A Merchant
In the city of Vardhaman, there lived a wealthy merchant named Dantila. He held a great reception for hiswedding attended by the king, the queen, their ministers and all the rich and influential persons in the city. Present at the reception was Gorambha, a lowly sweeper in the royal household. When Dantila saw him occupying a seat reserved for the nobles of the king, he ordered his servants to throw him out of his house.
Thus insulted, Gorambha thought to himself, “I am a poor man and so cannot give a...
