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336 BRZHASPATI. XIII, 9.
paying half the price (tendered), the custom in that
case being that one half of the value is lost to each
of the two.
9. A purchase from an unknown (vendor) is one
fault (in that case); want of care in keeping it is
another; these two faults are viewed by the wise as
legitimate grounds of loss to each party.
10. When a man purchases (a commodity) at a
fair price, and (the purchase) has been previously
announced to the king, there is no wrong about it;
but he who makes a fraudulent purchase is a thief.
11. That should be known as a fraudulent purchase
which is made at an unreasonably low price, in the
interior of a house, outside of the village, at night,
in secret, or from a dishonest person.
XIV. Concerns of a Partnership.
1. Trade or other occupations should not be
carried on by prudent men jointly with incompetent
or lazy persons, or with such as are afflicted by an
illness, ill-fated, or destitute.
2. A man should carry on business jointly with
persons of noble parentage, clever, active, intelligent,
familiar with coins, skilled in revenue and expendi-
ture, honest, and enterprising.
3. As an equal, smaller, or larger share (of the
10, 11. Viv. p. 60; Viram. p. 375; Col. Dig. II, 2, 57. In 10,
Colebrooke has ‘delivered by the owner in the presence of credible
persons.’ I have translated the reading of the Viramitrodaya,
‘previously announced to the king.’ In n, the clause ‘in secret’
is omitted in the Viramitrodaya.
XIV, 1, 2. Ratn. p. in; Col, Dig. II, 3, 2 ; Viram. pp. 383,
384-
3. Ratn. p. 112; Col. Dig. II, 3, 5.
paying half the price (tendered), the custom in that
case being that one half of the value is lost to each
of the two.
9. A purchase from an unknown (vendor) is one
fault (in that case); want of care in keeping it is
another; these two faults are viewed by the wise as
legitimate grounds of loss to each party.
10. When a man purchases (a commodity) at a
fair price, and (the purchase) has been previously
announced to the king, there is no wrong about it;
but he who makes a fraudulent purchase is a thief.
11. That should be known as a fraudulent purchase
which is made at an unreasonably low price, in the
interior of a house, outside of the village, at night,
in secret, or from a dishonest person.
XIV. Concerns of a Partnership.
1. Trade or other occupations should not be
carried on by prudent men jointly with incompetent
or lazy persons, or with such as are afflicted by an
illness, ill-fated, or destitute.
2. A man should carry on business jointly with
persons of noble parentage, clever, active, intelligent,
familiar with coins, skilled in revenue and expendi-
ture, honest, and enterprising.
3. As an equal, smaller, or larger share (of the
10, 11. Viv. p. 60; Viram. p. 375; Col. Dig. II, 2, 57. In 10,
Colebrooke has ‘delivered by the owner in the presence of credible
persons.’ I have translated the reading of the Viramitrodaya,
‘previously announced to the king.’ In n, the clause ‘in secret’
is omitted in the Viramitrodaya.
XIV, 1, 2. Ratn. p. in; Col, Dig. II, 3, 2 ; Viram. pp. 383,
384-
3. Ratn. p. 112; Col. Dig. II, 3, 5.