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XI, 3- ORDEALS. 57
7. Next (the judge) should adjure by (the fol-
lowing) imprecations the balance
8. And the person appointed to look after the
weighing :
9. ‘ Those places of torture which have been
prepared for the murderer of a Brahmazza, or for
a false witness, the same places are ordained for a
person appointed to look after the weighing, who
acts fraudulently in his office.
10. ‘ Thou, O balance (dhaz'a), art called by the
same name as holy law (dharma); thou, O balance,
knowest what mortals do not comprehend.
11. ‘This man, being arraigned in a cause, is
weighed upon thee. Therefore mayest thou deliver
him lawfully from this perplexity.’
12. Thereupon the judge should have him placed
into the one scale again. If he rises in it, he is
freed from the charge according to law.
13. In case of the strings bursting, or of the
splitting of the transverse beam, the man should be
placed in the scale once more. Thus the facts will
be ascertained positively, and a just sentence be the
result.
XI.
1. Now follows the (rule regarding the ordeal by)
fire.
2. He must make seven circles, sixteen Angulas 1 2 3
in breadth each, the intervals being of the same
breadth.
3. Thereupon he must place seven leaves of the
XI. 2-9. Y. II, 103, 105-107.— 11. Y. II, 104.
2. 1 See X, 2, note.
3. Nand. takes the term tata^, ‘thereupon,’ to imply that he
7. Next (the judge) should adjure by (the fol-
lowing) imprecations the balance
8. And the person appointed to look after the
weighing :
9. ‘ Those places of torture which have been
prepared for the murderer of a Brahmazza, or for
a false witness, the same places are ordained for a
person appointed to look after the weighing, who
acts fraudulently in his office.
10. ‘ Thou, O balance (dhaz'a), art called by the
same name as holy law (dharma); thou, O balance,
knowest what mortals do not comprehend.
11. ‘This man, being arraigned in a cause, is
weighed upon thee. Therefore mayest thou deliver
him lawfully from this perplexity.’
12. Thereupon the judge should have him placed
into the one scale again. If he rises in it, he is
freed from the charge according to law.
13. In case of the strings bursting, or of the
splitting of the transverse beam, the man should be
placed in the scale once more. Thus the facts will
be ascertained positively, and a just sentence be the
result.
XI.
1. Now follows the (rule regarding the ordeal by)
fire.
2. He must make seven circles, sixteen Angulas 1 2 3
in breadth each, the intervals being of the same
breadth.
3. Thereupon he must place seven leaves of the
XI. 2-9. Y. II, 103, 105-107.— 11. Y. II, 104.
2. 1 See X, 2, note.
3. Nand. takes the term tata^, ‘thereupon,’ to imply that he