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NARADA.
9. Where justice, having been hit by injustice,
enters a court of justice, and the members of the
court do not extract the dart from the wound, they
are hit by it themselves.
10. Either the judicial assembly must not be
entered at all, or a fair opinion delivered. That
man who either stands mute or delivers an opinion
contrary to justice is a sinner.
11. Those members of a court who, after having
entered it, sit mute and meditative, and do not
speak when the occasion arises, are liars all of
them.
* 12. One quarter of the iniquity goes to the
offender; one quarter goes to the witness; one
quarter goes to all the members of the court;
one quarter goes to the king.
13. The king is freed from responsibility, the
9. Virtue is here compared to one wounded with a weapon, who
goes to a physician in order to be cured by him. The judges are
compared to physicians who, by means of a careful judicial investi-
gation, deliver justice from the attacks of iniquity. If they do
not extract the dart of iniquity, they are killed themselves by the
dart of iniquity, which has been spared by them. A. Nearly
identical with Manu VIII, 12.
10. Either the judicial assembly must not be entered at all, not
even a single time, or an opinion conformable to justice must be
delivered. A judge who remains silent, or who, when asked to
pass a sentence, says what is contrary to justice, is criminal, i. e.
a great sinner. A. Nearly identical with Manu VIII, 13.
11. Those judges who sit mute in the judicial assembly, being
apparently engaged in meditating over an altogether different affair
than that for which the parties have appeared before the tribunal,
and who fail to declare at the proper time the victory of the one
party and the defeat of the other, all such persons shall be looked
upon by the king as equally criminal with those who pass a false
sentence. A.
12. 13. These two paragraphs belong together. If the judges
9. Where justice, having been hit by injustice,
enters a court of justice, and the members of the
court do not extract the dart from the wound, they
are hit by it themselves.
10. Either the judicial assembly must not be
entered at all, or a fair opinion delivered. That
man who either stands mute or delivers an opinion
contrary to justice is a sinner.
11. Those members of a court who, after having
entered it, sit mute and meditative, and do not
speak when the occasion arises, are liars all of
them.
* 12. One quarter of the iniquity goes to the
offender; one quarter goes to the witness; one
quarter goes to all the members of the court;
one quarter goes to the king.
13. The king is freed from responsibility, the
9. Virtue is here compared to one wounded with a weapon, who
goes to a physician in order to be cured by him. The judges are
compared to physicians who, by means of a careful judicial investi-
gation, deliver justice from the attacks of iniquity. If they do
not extract the dart of iniquity, they are killed themselves by the
dart of iniquity, which has been spared by them. A. Nearly
identical with Manu VIII, 12.
10. Either the judicial assembly must not be entered at all, not
even a single time, or an opinion conformable to justice must be
delivered. A judge who remains silent, or who, when asked to
pass a sentence, says what is contrary to justice, is criminal, i. e.
a great sinner. A. Nearly identical with Manu VIII, 13.
11. Those judges who sit mute in the judicial assembly, being
apparently engaged in meditating over an altogether different affair
than that for which the parties have appeared before the tribunal,
and who fail to declare at the proper time the victory of the one
party and the defeat of the other, all such persons shall be looked
upon by the king as equally criminal with those who pass a false
sentence. A.
12. 13. These two paragraphs belong together. If the judges