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The minor law books: The minor law books — Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1889

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X, 2.

PURCHASE ; COMPACTS.

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annul a purchase, after having once made it. He
ought to know all about the profit and loss on
merchandise, and its origin.

TENTH TITLE OF LAW.
Transgression of a Compact.
~'ri. The aggregate of the rules settled amongst
heretics, followers of the Veda (Naigamas) and
others, is called Samaya (compact, or established
usage). Thus arises a title of law, termed Trans-
gression of a Compact.
*2. Among heretics, followers of the Veda (Nai-
gamas), guilds (of merchants), corporations (Pugas),
troops (of soldiers), assemblages (of kinsmen), and
other (associations) the king must maintain the
usages (settled among them), both in fortified towns
and in the open country.

its value in one country, and the increase of its value in another
country, and ‘ its origin,’ the country where it comes from. That
is the meaning. Viramitrodaya, pp. 434, 43g.
X, 1. ‘Heretics,’ Kshapazzakas (Buddhist or Jain mendicants) and
others who detract from the authority of the Veda. ‘ Naigamas,’
traders or merchants. According to the Mitakshara, the term
Naigama refers to Parupatas and others who uphold the authority
of the Veda. The term ‘and others’ is used to include corporations
of learned Brahmans and other (associations). Viramitrodaya,
p. 423. The term samaya, literally ‘compact,’ denotes local or
caste usages, the violation of which forms the subject of the tenth
title of law.
2. Of the term Naigama, the commentators give the same two
different interpretations as in the preceding paragraph. I have
referred it to ‘ followers of the Veda,’ because it comes immediately
after the term ‘ heretics.’ The term puga has three interpretations
in this place. Some say it means ‘companies of traders or others.’
 
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