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VI, II.
NON-PAYMENT OF WAGES.
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or beasts for draught or burden, after having hired
them, shall be made to pay a fourth part of the
hire ; and the whole, if he leaves them half-way.
* 8. And so shall a carrier who fails to transport
(the goods entrusted to him) forfeit his wages. He
shall be compelled to pay twice the amount of his
wages, if he raises difficulties at the time of starting.
* 9. When the merchandise has been damaged by
the carrier’s fault, he shall have to make good every
loss, not including such losses as may have been
caused by fate or by the king.
* 10. For (tending) a hundred cows, (a heifer shall
be given to the herdsman) as wages every year;
for (tending) two hundred (cows), a milch cow (shall
be given to him annually), and he shall be allowed
to milk (all the cows) every eighth clay.
*11. Those (cows) which a cowherd takes to
compelled to pay) the wages together with interest.’ This is
probably the true reading, as paragraphs 6 and 7 are quoted in this
form in the Viramitrodaya and in Colebrooke’s Digest respectively.
8. According to the Mitakshara (p. 280), the excessive fine
ordained in the second half of this paragraph shall be inflicted
when a man raises obstacles on specially important occasions, such
as a wedding, or the auspicious time for undertaking a journey.
Ya^/zavalkya II, 197.
9. ‘ Merchandise,’ pearls or other commodities which are to be
transported. ‘ Damaged,’ i. e. destroyed. In the terms ‘ mer-
chandise ’ and ‘ carrier,’ which are successively used in this para-
graph, a bull and a husbandman are included by implication. Thus
it is declared in the Madanaratna. Viramitrodaya, p. 418. What
the Madanaratna means is this, that the responsibility of a husband-
man for a bull used by him for the purposes of agriculture is
analogous to the responsibility of a carrier for the goods he has
undertaken to transport. Vishmi V, 155, 156; Yaovzavalkya
II, 197.
10. Manu VIII, 231.
11. Manu VIII, 230; Ya^zavalkya II, 164.
NON-PAYMENT OF WAGES.
141
or beasts for draught or burden, after having hired
them, shall be made to pay a fourth part of the
hire ; and the whole, if he leaves them half-way.
* 8. And so shall a carrier who fails to transport
(the goods entrusted to him) forfeit his wages. He
shall be compelled to pay twice the amount of his
wages, if he raises difficulties at the time of starting.
* 9. When the merchandise has been damaged by
the carrier’s fault, he shall have to make good every
loss, not including such losses as may have been
caused by fate or by the king.
* 10. For (tending) a hundred cows, (a heifer shall
be given to the herdsman) as wages every year;
for (tending) two hundred (cows), a milch cow (shall
be given to him annually), and he shall be allowed
to milk (all the cows) every eighth clay.
*11. Those (cows) which a cowherd takes to
compelled to pay) the wages together with interest.’ This is
probably the true reading, as paragraphs 6 and 7 are quoted in this
form in the Viramitrodaya and in Colebrooke’s Digest respectively.
8. According to the Mitakshara (p. 280), the excessive fine
ordained in the second half of this paragraph shall be inflicted
when a man raises obstacles on specially important occasions, such
as a wedding, or the auspicious time for undertaking a journey.
Ya^/zavalkya II, 197.
9. ‘ Merchandise,’ pearls or other commodities which are to be
transported. ‘ Damaged,’ i. e. destroyed. In the terms ‘ mer-
chandise ’ and ‘ carrier,’ which are successively used in this para-
graph, a bull and a husbandman are included by implication. Thus
it is declared in the Madanaratna. Viramitrodaya, p. 418. What
the Madanaratna means is this, that the responsibility of a husband-
man for a bull used by him for the purposes of agriculture is
analogous to the responsibility of a carrier for the goods he has
undertaken to transport. Vishmi V, 155, 156; Yaovzavalkya
II, 197.
10. Manu VIII, 231.
11. Manu VIII, 230; Ya^zavalkya II, 164.