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Sattar, Arshia

The Mouse Merchant: Money in Ancient India - Gurgaon Penguin Random House India Pvt. Ltd 2017 - 193p - The Story of Indian Business .

Part I: Clever Wives
1. The Story of Kirtisena
2. Upakosha and her Suitors
3. The Unfaithful Wife

Part II: Courtesans
4. How a Courtesan should Handle Money
5. The Gentleman’s Life
6. The Courtesan Who Fell in Love
7. The Courtesan Tricks

Part III: Gamblers
8. The Gambler’s Lament
9. The Dice Game
10. The Gambler and the Gods

Part IV: Poverty
11. Charudatta’s Lament
12. How to Seek a Fortune: Part One
13. How to Seek a Fortune: Part Two
14. The image of Poverty

Part V: Thieves
15. The Merchant and the Bandits
16. The Man who outsmarted Himself
17. The Miser and His Kheer
18. The Merchant and the Dry Tank

Part VI: What a Merchant Needs for his Business to Succees
19. The Mouse Merchant
20. The Mice that ate Iron
21. Ayodhya
22. King Vikrama and the Mendicant

Part VII: The Sanudasa Cycle
23. The Travels of Sanudasa the Merchant

ISBN: 9780143424727

Subjects--Personal Names:
Money - India - History

Dewey Class. No.: 658 / SAT