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B22ZHASPATI.
X, 9-
must be administered which corresponds to the
amount (of the sum in dispute) and to the (character
or strength of the) individual (to be examined).
9. (The ordeal by) poison should be administered
when (property worth) a thousand (Pazzas) has been
stolen ; (the ordeal by) fire, when a quarter less than
that (or 750, has been stolen).
10. When the charge concerns four hundred, the
hot piece of gold should be administered. (When
it concerns) three hundred, the grains of rice should
be given ; and the sacred libation, (when it concerns)
half of that.
11. When a hundred has been stolen or falsely
denied, purgation by Dharma should be administered.
Thieves of cows should be subjected by preference
to the (ordeal by the) ploughshare by the judges.
12. These figures are applicable in the case of
low persons ; for persons of a middling kind, double
is ordained ; and for persons of the highest rank,
the amount has to be fixed four times as high by
persons entrusted with judicial affairs.
13. The quantities (of various coins or weights),
beginning with a floating particle of dust and ending
with a Karshapazza, have been declared by Manu.
They are applicable both to ordeals and to fines.
14. A Nishika is four Suvarzzas. A Pazza of
9-12. Viram. p. 230. I read, with Smz'ztiT, Z’atu/zsatabhiyoge in
10, and sabhyai/z phalara prayatnata4 in 11.
11. Dharma, ‘test of right and wrong,' is the ordeal which con-
sists of drawing lots or slips of white and black paper.
12. ‘Eminent persons/ through their birth, qualities, or virtue.
The same interpretation applies to the two other terms. A tram.
13. Viram. p. 233. See Manu A III, 131-138.
14. 15. Viram. p. 234. I read ^aWika for ^andrika in 11, with
Viramitrodaya.
B22ZHASPATI.
X, 9-
must be administered which corresponds to the
amount (of the sum in dispute) and to the (character
or strength of the) individual (to be examined).
9. (The ordeal by) poison should be administered
when (property worth) a thousand (Pazzas) has been
stolen ; (the ordeal by) fire, when a quarter less than
that (or 750, has been stolen).
10. When the charge concerns four hundred, the
hot piece of gold should be administered. (When
it concerns) three hundred, the grains of rice should
be given ; and the sacred libation, (when it concerns)
half of that.
11. When a hundred has been stolen or falsely
denied, purgation by Dharma should be administered.
Thieves of cows should be subjected by preference
to the (ordeal by the) ploughshare by the judges.
12. These figures are applicable in the case of
low persons ; for persons of a middling kind, double
is ordained ; and for persons of the highest rank,
the amount has to be fixed four times as high by
persons entrusted with judicial affairs.
13. The quantities (of various coins or weights),
beginning with a floating particle of dust and ending
with a Karshapazza, have been declared by Manu.
They are applicable both to ordeals and to fines.
14. A Nishika is four Suvarzzas. A Pazza of
9-12. Viram. p. 230. I read, with Smz'ztiT, Z’atu/zsatabhiyoge in
10, and sabhyai/z phalara prayatnata4 in 11.
11. Dharma, ‘test of right and wrong,' is the ordeal which con-
sists of drawing lots or slips of white and black paper.
12. ‘Eminent persons/ through their birth, qualities, or virtue.
The same interpretation applies to the two other terms. A tram.
13. Viram. p. 233. See Manu A III, 131-138.
14. 15. Viram. p. 234. I read ^aWika for ^andrika in 11, with
Viramitrodaya.