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Rh which had belonged to him, he was turned out of doors and sent adrift. So Kalâvatî's admirer returned home having lost both money and credit. His father, seeing him in this condition, was much distressed, and asked how it had all come about. He did not like to tell him, but told his spiritual father, who said: " My son, do not be cast down ! Good luck and bad luck are equally the lot of man. Why should wise men think so much of money ? If it goes, grieve not after it: if it comes back, care not for it."

When his father heard all that had happened he went to Dhûrtamâyâ and said: "I have come to tell you that a great misfortune has happened. My son has fallen a victim to the treachery of a woman." " Who has not been ruined by women ? " replied Dhûrtamâyâ: "for it has been said: ' A man who gains wealth becomes proud: he who falls into calamities loses his senses: whose will is not shaken by women ? Who can be the friend of a king ? Who has not come info the power of death ? Who does not respect a rich man ? Who that falls into the net of the evil escapes without loss ? ' Therefore if you will take a passage for me in a ship, I will go back with your son. It has been said: ' Damage may be repaid with damage: