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B22ZHASPATI.
XXVII, 22-26.
clay (after the decease of a person) or at some other
-Sraddha.
22. Others, after lending grain, take twice as much
back in the autumn season and occupy the embanked
land, after having received twice the amount lent,
23. Though the principal has been repaid. This
is reprehensible also. Such forbidden practices (the
king) should check (when they are resorted to)
through folly.
24. Such customs as are not opposed to the laws
of particular countries and castes or other (corpora-
tions), every king should establish in accordance
with the sacred law, after consulting the law-books.]
25. Thus let the king every day examine, in
common with learned Brahmans, both the suits
proffered by litigants and those instituted by the
king (himself).
26. When the safety of many may be effected by
destroying a single offender, his execution is produc-
tive of religious merit (even).
25. Ratn. p. 618.
26. Smrzti^. ekasmin yatra nidhanazzz prapite dush/aZ’aiizzi I ba-
hunazzz bhavati kshemas tasya puzzyaprado vadha^ 11
B22ZHASPATI.
XXVII, 22-26.
clay (after the decease of a person) or at some other
-Sraddha.
22. Others, after lending grain, take twice as much
back in the autumn season and occupy the embanked
land, after having received twice the amount lent,
23. Though the principal has been repaid. This
is reprehensible also. Such forbidden practices (the
king) should check (when they are resorted to)
through folly.
24. Such customs as are not opposed to the laws
of particular countries and castes or other (corpora-
tions), every king should establish in accordance
with the sacred law, after consulting the law-books.]
25. Thus let the king every day examine, in
common with learned Brahmans, both the suits
proffered by litigants and those instituted by the
king (himself).
26. When the safety of many may be effected by
destroying a single offender, his execution is produc-
tive of religious merit (even).
25. Ratn. p. 618.
26. Smrzti^. ekasmin yatra nidhanazzz prapite dush/aZ’aiizzi I ba-
hunazzz bhavati kshemas tasya puzzyaprado vadha^ 11