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BRZHASTATI.

Ill, 14.

that a delay should be granted to him, according to
circumstances and according to his ability.
14. Let him remove superfluous statements and
amplify incomplete ones, and let him write down
(everything) on the floor, till the (whole) matter has
been definitely stated.
15. The plaintiff is at liberty to alter his declara-
tion, when it is defective or redundant, till the
defendant has tendered his answer in the presence
of the judges.
16. When the plaintiff through timorousness does
not dare to speak, it devolves on the judges to
amend his declaration, according to the circumstances
of the case.
17. A charge founded on suspicion, (one founded
on) fact, a petition regarding the recovery of a debt,
and claiming a fresh trial of a cause previously tried :
thus a plaint is represented as fourfold.
18. The plaint is fourfold, and so is the answer;
the judgment is declared to be of four kinds also ;
by some it is represented as being of eight sorts.
19. Suspicion is explained to mean doubt; fact is
(said to be) an insight into the real nature of a
matter; a petition regarding the recovery of a debt
is (plea of) error; a fresh trial is the repetition of a
previous trial.
IV. The Answer.
1. When the plaint has been well defined, a clear
exposition given of what is claimed and what not,
and the meaning of the plaint fully established, (the

14. Viram. p. 70.
16-19. Viram. p. 71.

15. Raghunandana, p. 14.
IV, 1. Viram. p. 72.