The institutes of Vishnu (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1880)

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171. (The same punishment is ordained for him)
who claims as a deposit what he never deposited.
172. A destroyer of landmarks shall be compelled
to pay the highest amercement and to mark the
boundary anew with landmarks.
173. He who (knowingly) eats forbidden food
effecting loss of caste shall be banished.
174. He who sells forbidden food (such as spi-
rituous liquor and the like), or food which must not
be sold, and he who breaks an image of a deity, shall
pay the highest amercement;
175. Also, a physician who adopts a wrong
method of cure in the case of a patient of high rank
(such as a relative of the king’s);
176. The second amercement in the case of
another patient ;
177. The lowest amercement in the case of an
animal.
178. He who does not give what he has pro-
mised, shall be compelled to give it and to pay the
first amercement.
179. To a false witness his entire property shall
be confiscated.
180. (The same punishment is ordained) for a
judge who lives by bribes.
181. He who has mortgaged more than a bull’s
hide of land to one creditor, and without having
redeemed it mortgages it to another, shall be cor-
porally punished (by whipping or imprisonment).
171. According to Nand., the particle £a indicates that those
who state the nature or amount of a deposit wrongly are also
intended here.
173. Thus according to Nand., who says expressly that the
causative form cannot here mean causing to eat, because the
punishment for the latter offence has been mentioned in Sutra 98.-