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103 Hindus, some help of Providence even for this fortune to be acquired. Self-acquired property is for this reason regarded as a fortune also. You will, besides, later on see that without self-exertion none of the fortunes can remain and be regarded as fortunes.

Now comes the question, who is the most fortunate amongst those who obtain one or another of these six classes of fortune. Fortune may come to a person providentially, but unless he, by his own exertions, manages it to the best possible advantage to that fortune he will not be a fortunate man at all after a few years. His fortune decreases day by day. So, by whatever way he acquires fortune, he must manage it to the greatest possible advantage. Then he may be called the most fortunate man. Then who is considered to be by far the most fortunate man? One who obtains his fortune by one or more of the above modes, except the sixth, and in-