Why Indians crawling for mone? Indians could not help their soil and climate, could they? Because things could be gown easily and plentifully in India and because the weather did not impose continuously hardships, the mass of the people exerted themselves but little. However, there were wiser folk, and these, by dim of toil, succeeded in accumulating wealth.Naturally, in times of famine and bad days they came to be looked upon as fortunate beings. Gradually, those who had savings, earned or inherited, came to dominate the imagination of the multitudes as people who inherently great by virtue of the cash they possessed. Ultimately, the man who had money began to symbolize everything desirable. Indeed, he was a favourite of the gods.
That this was known to Indian ancestors is beyond doubt. A poet of the sixth century, Bhavabhuti, has put the matter in a nutshell: "All qualities cling to gold." A man with money is handsome, wise, young, what not. Many an Indian father or mother even today, marries off a pretty daughter to an ugly toothless man because he is rich. Wealth in India covers a multitude of sins. [will continue]
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That this was known to Indian ancestors is beyond doubt. A poet of the sixth century, Bhavabhuti, has put the matter in a nutshell: "All qualities cling to gold." A man with money is handsome, wise, young, what not. Many an Indian father or mother even today, marries off a pretty daughter to an ugly toothless man because he is rich. Wealth in India covers a multitude of sins. [will continue]
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