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LU, 17.
PENANCES.
173
(milk or other) drinks, a bed, a seat, flowers, roots,
or fruit, drinking Pan/£agavya (is ordained as
penance).
9. (For stealing) grass, firewood, trees, rice in the
husk, sugar, clothes, skins, or flesh, the thief must
fast for three days.
10. (For stealing knowingly) precious stones,
pearls or coral, copper, silver, iron, or white copper,
he must eat grain separated from the husk for
twelve days.
11. For stealing (unawares) cotton, silk, wool or
other (stuffs), he must subsist for three days upon
milk.
12. For stealing two-hoofed or one-hoofed ani-
mals, he must fast for three days.
13. For stealing birds, or perfumes, or medicinal
herbs, or cords, or basket-work, he must fast for
one day.
14. Though a thief may have restored to the
owner the stolen property (either openly or) in some
indirect manner1, he must still perform a penance,
in order to purify himself from guilt.
15. Whatever a man takes from others, un-
checked (by the dictates of religion), of that will
he be bereft in every future birth.
16. Because life, religious merit, and pleasure
depend upon wealth, therefore let a man take care
not to injure the wealth (of others by robbing
them) by any means.
17. Among those two, he who injures animal
life, and he who injures wealth, the one who injures
wealth shall incur the heavier penalty.
14. 1 ‘ As under pretext of handing over to him the dowry of a
wife.’ (Nand.)
PENANCES.
173
(milk or other) drinks, a bed, a seat, flowers, roots,
or fruit, drinking Pan/£agavya (is ordained as
penance).
9. (For stealing) grass, firewood, trees, rice in the
husk, sugar, clothes, skins, or flesh, the thief must
fast for three days.
10. (For stealing knowingly) precious stones,
pearls or coral, copper, silver, iron, or white copper,
he must eat grain separated from the husk for
twelve days.
11. For stealing (unawares) cotton, silk, wool or
other (stuffs), he must subsist for three days upon
milk.
12. For stealing two-hoofed or one-hoofed ani-
mals, he must fast for three days.
13. For stealing birds, or perfumes, or medicinal
herbs, or cords, or basket-work, he must fast for
one day.
14. Though a thief may have restored to the
owner the stolen property (either openly or) in some
indirect manner1, he must still perform a penance,
in order to purify himself from guilt.
15. Whatever a man takes from others, un-
checked (by the dictates of religion), of that will
he be bereft in every future birth.
16. Because life, religious merit, and pleasure
depend upon wealth, therefore let a man take care
not to injure the wealth (of others by robbing
them) by any means.
17. Among those two, he who injures animal
life, and he who injures wealth, the one who injures
wealth shall incur the heavier penalty.
14. 1 ‘ As under pretext of handing over to him the dowry of a
wife.’ (Nand.)