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XI, 24.
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but too much water tends to spoil the grain. An
inundation is as injurious (to growth) as a dearth
of water.
* 20. If a man were to put in repair a dike
erected long ago, but decayed, without asking the
permission of the owner, he shall not have (the use
and) profits of it.
* 21. However, after the death of the owner or of
another man sprung from the same race (who has
succeeded to his property), he may repair the dike,
after having been authorized to do so by the king.
* 22. By acting otherwise he will get into trouble,
in the same way as the hunter (of the tale). The
shafts of him are spent in vain who hits again and
again one who has been hit already.
* 23. When the owner of a field is unable (to cul-
tivate it), or dead, or gone no one knows whither,
any stranger who undertakes its cultivation un-
checked (by the owner or others) shall be allowed to
keep the produce.
* 24. When the owner returns while the stranger
20. With the owner’s permission, any man may restore a dike,
&c., which has fallen into decay. Viramitrodaya, p. 468. Yag’na-
valkya II, 157. Read pravrzttam in the text.
21. The authority of the king is required, because, without it,
the profits of the dike would have to be enjoyed by'the king himself.
See Ya^navalkya II, 157.
22. The tertium compar ationis in this simile has to be sought
in the vanity of the effort only. Manu (IX, 73) applies the same
simile to seed, i.e. semen virile spent in vain on the field, i. e. wife
of a stranger.
23. ‘Unable’ (to cultivate the field) through want of means.
‘A field,’ one which has become a desert. VivadaX’intamarai, p. 64.
24. ‘ The owner,’ or his son or other (descendant). ‘The whole
expense incurred in tilling the waste,’ the cost of converting the
desert into cultivated ground. Viramitrodaya, pp. 469, 470.
BOUNDARY DISPUTES.
159
but too much water tends to spoil the grain. An
inundation is as injurious (to growth) as a dearth
of water.
* 20. If a man were to put in repair a dike
erected long ago, but decayed, without asking the
permission of the owner, he shall not have (the use
and) profits of it.
* 21. However, after the death of the owner or of
another man sprung from the same race (who has
succeeded to his property), he may repair the dike,
after having been authorized to do so by the king.
* 22. By acting otherwise he will get into trouble,
in the same way as the hunter (of the tale). The
shafts of him are spent in vain who hits again and
again one who has been hit already.
* 23. When the owner of a field is unable (to cul-
tivate it), or dead, or gone no one knows whither,
any stranger who undertakes its cultivation un-
checked (by the owner or others) shall be allowed to
keep the produce.
* 24. When the owner returns while the stranger
20. With the owner’s permission, any man may restore a dike,
&c., which has fallen into decay. Viramitrodaya, p. 468. Yag’na-
valkya II, 157. Read pravrzttam in the text.
21. The authority of the king is required, because, without it,
the profits of the dike would have to be enjoyed by'the king himself.
See Ya^navalkya II, 157.
22. The tertium compar ationis in this simile has to be sought
in the vanity of the effort only. Manu (IX, 73) applies the same
simile to seed, i.e. semen virile spent in vain on the field, i. e. wife
of a stranger.
23. ‘Unable’ (to cultivate the field) through want of means.
‘A field,’ one which has become a desert. VivadaX’intamarai, p. 64.
24. ‘ The owner,’ or his son or other (descendant). ‘The whole
expense incurred in tilling the waste,’ the cost of converting the
desert into cultivated ground. Viramitrodaya, pp. 469, 470.