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“In reality, the network of large and small temples had a close relationship with merchant and artisan communities as well as the village/town councils; this is quite clear from an examination of various donations and contracts. Moreover, the reason that the temples accumulated so much wealth is that they acted as bankers”
― Sanjeev Sanyal, The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History

“Creation and destruction are the two ends of the same moment. And everything between the creation and the next destruction is the journey of life.”
― Amish Tripathi, The Oath of the Vayuputras

“Roman writer Pliny (23–79 AD) wrote: ‘Not a year passed in which India did not take fifty million sesterces away from Rome.”
― Sanjeev Sanyal, Land of seven rivers: History of India's Geography

“It's our greed to extract more and more from good that turns it into evil.”
― Amish Tripathi, The Oath of the Vayuputras