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193. ^ Even to the daughters of those daughters, ^ it is fit, that something should be given, from the ^ assets of their maternal grandmother, on the score ' of natural affection.
194. * What was given before the nuptial fire, what
* was given on the bridal procession, what was given ^ in token of love, and what was received from a ' brother, a mother, or a father, are considered as the ^ six-fold separate property of a married woman :
195. ^ What she received after marriage from the ^ family of her husband, and what her aflfectionate
* lord may have given her, shall be inherited, even ^ if she die in his life-time, by her children.
196. Mt is ordained, that the property of a woman, ^ married by the ceremonies called Brdhma^ Daiva, ' A'rsha^ Gdndharvay or Prdjdpatya^ shall go to her ' husband, if she die without issue.
197. ' But her wealth given on the marriage called ' A'sura^ or on either of the two others, is ordained, ' on her death without issue, to become the property ^ of her father and mother.
198. * If a widow, whose husband had other wives ' of different classesy shall have received wealth at ^ any time €is a gift from her father, and shall die
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^ tvithaut issacj it shall go to the daughter of the chap. ' BrdhmanU'Vniej or to the issue of that daughter. ^^•
199. ^ A woman should never make a hoard from ^ the goods of her kindred^ which are common to her
* and many; or even from the property of her lord,
* without his assent.
200. * Such ornamental apparel, as women wear
* during the lives of their husbands, the heirs of those
* husbands shall not divide among themselves : they, ^ who divide it among themselves, fall deep into sin.
201. ^ Eunuchs and outcasts, persons bom blind or ^ deaf, madmen, idiots, the dumb, and such as have ^ lost the use of a limb, are excluded from a share ' of the heritage j
202. ^ But it is just, that the heir, who knows his ^ duty, should give all of them food and raiment for ' Ufe without stint, according to the best of his ' power: he, who gives them nothing, sinks assuredly
* to a region of punishment.
203. * If the eunuch and the rest should at any
' time desire to marry, and if tKe wife of the eunuch - ' should raise up a son to him by a mun legally ap- ^ pointed y that son and the issue of such, as have ' children, shall be capable of injieriting.
204. ' After the death of the father, if the eldest
* brother acquire wealth by his own efforts before par- ^ tition^ a share of that acquisition shall go to the
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CHAP. ' younger brcKthers^ if they have made a due process ^^' ' in learning;
205. ^ And if all of them^ being unlearned, acquire ' property Ae/ore partition by their own labour, there
* shall be an equal division cif that property without
* regard to the first-horn; for it was not the wealth ' of their father: this rule is clearly settled.
206. ^ Wealth, however, acquired by learning, be- ' longs exclusively to any one of them^ who acquired ' it: so does any thing given by a friend, received ^ on account of marriage, or presented as a mark of
* respect to a guest.
207. ' If any one of the brethren has a compe- ^ tence from his own occupation, and wants not the ' property of his father j he may debar himself from ^ his own share, some trifle being given him as a
* consideration, to prevent future strife.
208. ' What a brother has acquired by labour or
* skill, without using the patrimony, he shall not give ^ up without his assent ; for it was gained by his own
* exertion:
209. ^ And if a son, by his own efforts, recover a
* debt or property/ unjustly detained^ which could not ' be recovered before by his father, he shall not, un- ' less by his free will, put it into parcenary with his ^ brethren, since in fact it was acquired by himself.
210. ^ If brethren, once divided and living again ' together as parceners, make a second partition, the
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shares must in that case be equal; and the first- chap. bom shall have no right of deduction. ^^•
211. ^ Should the eldest or youngest of several bro- thers be deprived of his share by a civH death an his entrance into the fourth order ^ or should any one of them die, his^ vested interest in a share shall not wholly be lost;
212» ^ But, if he leave neither son, nor wife^ nor daughter^ nor father ^ nor mother j his uterine brothers and sisters, and such brothers as were re-united after a separation, shall assemble and divide his share equally. ^
213. ^ Any eldest brother, • who from avarice shall defraud his younger brother, shall forfeit the honours of his primogeniture, be deprived of his own share, and pay a fine to the king.
214. ^ All those brothers, who are addicted to any vice, lose their title to the inheritance : the first- bom shall not appropriate it to himself, but shall give shares to the youngest, if they he not vicious.
215. ^ If, among undivided brethren living with their father, there be a common exertion for common gain, the father shall never make an unequal di- vision among them, when they divide their families.
21(5. ^ A son, bom after a division in the lifetime of his father^ shall alone inherit the patrimony, or shall have a share of it with the divided brethren, if they return and unite themselves with him.
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^^' ' wichwy the father and mother shall take the estate;
' and^ the mother also being dead^ the paternal gr
' father ofid grandoiother shall take the heritage^ on
' failure of brothers and nephews.
218. ^ When all the debts and wealth have been ' justly distributed according to law, any property, ^ that may afterwards be discovered, shall be subject ' to a similar distribution.
219. ' Apparel, carriages, or riding-horses, and or- ^ naments of ordinary valuer which amf of the heirs
* had tised by consent Ibefore partition, dressed rice, ^ water in a well or cisterny female slaves, family
* priests, or spiritual counsellors, and pasture ground ' for cattle, the wise have declared indivisible, and
• * still to be v^ed as before.
220. * Thus have the laws of inheritance, and the ' rule for the conduct of sons (whether the son of ^ the wife or others) been expounded to you iijt ' order : learn at present the law concerning games ' of chance.
221. * GUming, either with inanimate or with ani* ^ mated things, let the king exclude wholly from ' his realm: both those modes of play cause destruc-
^ tion to princes.
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222. ^ Such play with dice and the Uke, or by ^ matches between rams and eocksy amaahts to open
' theft;
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^ theft; and the king must ever be vigilant in sup- chap.
* pressing both modes of play : *^-
223. ' Gaining with lifeless things is known among ^ men by the name of dyiUa} but mmdhwaytt sig- ^ nifles a match between living creatures.
224. ^ Let the king punish corporally at discretion ^ both the gamester and the keeper of a gaming- ' house^ whether they play with inanimate or ani- ' mated things; and men of the servile class, who ^ wear the string and other marks of the twice^-bom.
225. ^ Gamesters, publick dancers and singers,
* revilers of scripture, open hereticks, men who per- ^ form not the duties of their several classes, and ^ sellers of spirituous liquor, let him instantly banish ^ from the town:
^16. * Those wretches, lurking like unseen thieves • ' in the dominion of a prince, continually harass his ' good subjects with their vitious conduct.
227. ' Even in a former creation was this i)ice of
* gaming found a great provoker of enmity: let no ' sensible man, therefore, addict himself to play even ' tor his amusement :
229. ^ On the man addicted to it, either privately ^ or openly, let punishment be inflicted at the dis-
* cretion of the king.
229. ^ A MAN of the military^ commerdal, or servile ^ class, who cannot pay a fine, shall discharge the
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CHAP. ^ debt by his labour: a priest shall discharge it by ^^- ' little and little.
230. ^ For women, children, persons of crazy in- ^ tellect, the old, the poor, and the infirm, the king ^ shall order punishment with a small whip, a twig, ^ or a rope.
281. / Those ministers, who are employed in pub- ^ lick affairs, and, inflamed by the blaze of wealth,
* nmr the business of any person concerned, let the
* king strip of all their property.
232. ' Such, as forge royal edicts, cause dissentions V^^™^^ ^be great ministers, or kill women, priests, ^ or children, let the king put to death; and such, as ^ adhere to his enemies.
233. ^ Whatever business has at any time been . ^ transacted conformably to law, let him consider as
' finally settled, and refuse to unravel;
234. * But whatever business has been concluded
* illegally by his ministers or by a judge, let the ' king himself re-examine ; and let him fine them each ^ a .thousand panas.
235. ^ The slayer of a priest, a soldier ©r. mer- ' chant drinking arak^ or a priest drinking araky mead,
* or rum, he, who steals the gold of a priest^ and he, ' who violates the bed of his natural or spiritual ' father, are all to be considered respectively as of- \ fenders in the highest degree, except thoscy whose ^ crimes are not Jit to he named:
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286. ' On such of those four, as have not actually chap.
* performed an expiation, let the kmg legally inflict ^^ ^ corporal punishment, together with a fine.
7S7* ' For violating the paternal bed, let the mark ' of a female part be impressed an the forehead with ^ hot iMn; for drinking spirits, a vintner's flag; for ' stealing sacred gold, a dog's foot; for murdering ^ a priest, the figure of a headless corpse:
238. ' With none to eat with them, with none to ' sacrifice with them, with none to read* with them, ^ with none to be allied by marriage to them, abject ^ and excluded from. all social duties, l^t them wander ^ over this e^h : •
239. ^ Branded with indelible marks, they shall be ' deserted by their ,pat§mal and. maternal relations, ^ treated . hy none with 4$^ctiqn, received by none ^ with respect: such vi the ordinance of Msnu.
240. ' Criminals of all the classes, having performed [ an expiation^ as ordamed by law, shall not be marked ^ on the fordiead, but condemned to pay the highest
* fine : .
241. ' For crimes by a prie^t^ who had a good cha- /' meter before his.qffeace^, the middle fine shall be set
^ on him ; or, if his crime was premeditated^ he shall ^ be banished from the realm, taking with him his
* effects and his fauiily;
242. * But m^n pf tl^ other dasses, who have, oom*
* mitted thoBe Grimes, though without premeditatton,
* shall
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CHAP. ' offence was premeditated, /shall be corporally, or ' even capitally, punished, ucMrdmg to circuimtances.
243. ^ Lbt no virtuous prince appropriate the wealth ^ of a criltninal in the highest degree; for he, who ap- ^ propriates it through covetousnes^, is contaminated ^ with the saiiie guil£:
244. ^ Having thrown such a fine into the waters, ^ let him offer it to Vabuna; or let him bestow it on ^ some pri«st of eminent learning in the scriptures :
245. * Varuna is the lord of pimishment ; he holds ^ a rod even 6ver kings ; and a priest who has gone ' through the whole Feda^ is equal to a sovereign of
' all the worid. ^
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246. ' Where the kihg abstains from deceiving (o his
* own use the wealth of ^neh offenders, there children
* are bom in due season and enjoy long lives;
247. ' There the grain of husbandmen rises abun- ^ dantly, as it was respectively sown; there no young- ^ lings die, nor is one deformed animal born.
248. ^ Should a man of the basest class, with pre- ^ conceived malice, give pain to BrAhmensy let the ^ prince corporally punish him by various modes, that *^ may raise terrour.
249. ^ A king is pronounced equally unjust in re- ^ leasing the man who deserves punishment, and in ^ pimishing the man who deserves it not : he is jtist, ' who al^9mys infliots^ the purashment ordained by law:
250. * These
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250. ^ Theee e«fcid)lifihed rules for administering jus- chap.
* tice between two litigant parties, have been pro- ^^ ^ pounded at length iinder eighteen heads.
25L ^ Thus fully performing all duties required by
^ law, let a king seek with justice to possess r^ons
^ yet unpossessed, and, when they are in his posses-
* sion, let him govern them well.
252. ^ His realm being completely arranged and his ^ fortresses amply provided, let him ever apply the ^ most diligent care to eradicate bad men resembling
* thorny weeds, as the law directs.
253. ^ By protecting sudi as live virtuously, and by ^ rooting up sack as live wickedly, those kings, whose
* hearts are intent on the security of their people, ^ shall rise to heaven.
254. ' Of that prince, who takes a revenue, without ^ restHsdning rogues, the dominions are thrown into ^ disorder, and himself shall be precluded from a ^ celestial abode j
255. ^ Bfot of him^ whose realm, by the strei^h of ^ his arm, is defended and free from tent>ur, the do* ^ minions continiially flourish, like trees duly watered.
256. ^ Let the kii^g, whose emissaries are his eyes, ^ discern well the two sorts of rogues, the open and ^ the concealed, who deprive other men of their
* wealth:
257. ' Open rogues ave they^ who subsist by chieat-
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ing in vaiions marketable commodities; and con- cealed rogues are they, who steal and rob in forests and. the like secret places.
258. * Receivers of bribes, extorters of money by threats, debasers of metals, gamesters, fortune-tellers, imposters, and professors of palmistry;
259. * Elephant-breakers, and quacks, not performing what they engage to perform, pretended artists^ and subtil harlots ;
260. * These and the like thorny weeds, overspread- ing the world, let the king discover with a quick sight, and others, who act ill in secret ; worthless men, yet bearing the outward signs of the worthy.
261. ' Having detected them, by means of trusty persons disguised, who pretend to have the same oc- cupation with them, and of spies placed m several stations, let him bring them by artifice into bis power ;
262. * Then, having fully proclaimed their respective criminal acts, let the king inflict punishment legally, according to the crimes proved;
263. * Since, without certain punishment, it is im- possible to restrain the delinquency of scoundrels with depraved souls, who secretly prowl over tibis earth.
264. ^ Much-frequented places, cisterns of water, ^ bake-houses, the lodgings of harlots, taverns and
* victualling
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* yictualling-shops, squares where four ways meet^ large chap. ^ well known trees^ assemblies^ and publick spectacles; ^^
265. ^ Old court-yards, thickets, the houses of artists, ^ empty mansions, groves, and gardens;
266. ^ These and the like places let the king guard, ^ for the prevention of robberies, with soldiers, both ^ stationary and patroling, as well as with secret f watchmen.
267. ^ By the means of able spies, once thieves, but
* reformed, who, well knowing the various machina-
* tions of rogues, associate with them and follow ^ them, let the king detect and draw them forth :
268. * On pretexts of dainty food and gratifications,
* or of seeing some wise priest, who could ensure their ' succesSy or on pretence of mock battles and the like ^ feats of strength, let the spies procure an assembly ^ of those men*
269. ^ Such as refuse to go forth on those occa-
* sions, deterred by former punishmentSy which the ^ king had inflicted^ let him seize by force, and put to
* death, on proof of their guilt, with their friends md ^ kinsmen, paternal and maternal, tf proved to be ^ their confederates.
270. ^ Let not a just prince kill a man convicted ^ of simple theft, unless taken with the maioer or ^ with implements of robbery; but any thief, taken ' with the maiuCT, or with such implements, let him ^ destroy without hesitation ;
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CHAR 271. 'And lei them sky all those/ who. ghre robbers ^^ ' fiwxi in towns, or snipply them with imjdeoientBy or
* afford them shelter.
272. ' Should those men, who were appointed to ' guard any districts^ or those of the vicinity, who ' were employed for that purpose, be neutral in at- ^ tacks by robbers and inactive in seizing them^ let ' him instantly punish them as thieves.
273. ' Him, who lives apparently by the rules of ' his class, but really departs from those rules, let ' the king severely punish by fine, as a wretch, who ' violates his duty.
274. ' They, who give no assistance on the plim- ' dering of a town, on the forcible breaking of a dike, ^ or on seeing a robbery on the highway, shall b^ ' banished with their cattle and utensils.
275. * Men, who rob the king's treasure, or obsti-^ ' nately oppose his commands, let him destroy by
* various modes of just punishment ; and those, who
* encourage his enemies.
276. ' Of robbers, who break a ^ wall or partition^ ' and commit theft in the night, let the prince order ' the hands to be lopped off, and themselves to be ^ fixed on a sharp stake.
277.^ Two fingers of a cutpurse, the thumb and the ^ indiWj let him cause to be amputated on hi9 first
* conviction' J on the second, one hand and one foot; ' on the third, he shall suffer/ death.
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[SOS.. ^ Suoh, iBfr give thieyes fire, sueh as give them chap- ^ foody iHck » give diem aroM and apartments, and ^^* ^ such as knowingly receive a thing stolen, let the ^ king punish as he would punish a thief.
279. ^ The breaker of a (kan to secure a pool, let ^' him puoisb by long iiiimersk>n under water, or by ^ ke^n corporal sufifering; or the offender shall repair ^ it, but must pay the highest mulct.
280, * ThoM, who break open the treasury, or the ^ MTsotfJ, ^ or the temple of a deity, and those, who ^ carry off royal el^hanta,. horses, or cars, let him ^ withwit hesikakkm destroy.
28L * He, who shall take away the water of an an- \ cient poo], or shaU obstruct a water-course, must ^ be condemned to pay the lowest usual amercement.
282. ^ He, who shall drop his ordure on the king's ^ highway, except in case of necessity, shall pay two ^ panas and immediately remove the filth;
283. ^ But a person in urgent necessity, a very old ^ man, a pregnant woman, and a child, only deserve ^ reproof, and shall clean the place themselves: that ^ is a settled rule.
284« ^ All physicians and surgeons acting unskilfully * in their several professions, must pay for injury to ^ brute animals the lowest, but for injury to human ^ creatures the middle, amercement.
. 285. ^ The breaker of a foot-bridge, of a publick
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CHAP. ' flag, of a palisade^ and of idok made cf elay^ atoU '^ ^ repair what he has broken, and pay a mdbt of five ^ hundred panas.
286. ^ For mixing impure with pure commodities, ' for piercing fine geins, da diamonds or rtdbies, and
* for boring pearh or inferiour gems improperly, the ^ fine is the lowest of the three; hut damages must ^ always he paid.
287. * The man, who shall deal unjustly with pur- ' chasers at a fair price by deHvering goods of less tio- ^ /lie, or shall sell at a high price goods of ordinary ^ valucy shall pay, according to circumstances^ the low- ^ est or the middle amercement.
288. ^ Let the king place all prisons near a pubUck
* road, where offenders may be seen wretched or dis-
* figured.
289. * Him, who breaks down a jpttA/tcAr wall, him, who ' fills up a publick ditch, him, who throws down a ^ publick gate, the king shall speedily banish.
290. ^ For all sacrifices to destroy innocent men,. ^ the punishment is a fine of two hundred panas; and ^ for machinations with poisonous roots, and for the ' various charms and witcheries intended to kill, by ' persons not effecting their purpose.
£91. * The seller of bad grain for good, or of good
* seed placed at the top of the bag^ to conceal the ' bad helowy and the destroyer of known land-marks^
* must
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^ must suffer such corporal punishment as will dis- chap. ^ figure them;
392. ^ But the most pernicious of all deceivers is ' a goldsmith, who commits frauds: the king shall . ^ OTder him to be cut peacemeal with razors.
293. ^ For stealing implements of husbandry, wea-
* pons, and prepared medicines, let the king award ^ punishment according to the time and according to
* their use.
294. ^ The king, and his council, his metropolis,
* his realm, his treasure, and his^ army, together with
* his ally, are the seven members of his kingdom ;
* whence it is called Septdnga:
295. ^ Among those seven members of a kingdom, ^ let him consider the ruin of the first, and so forth
* in order, as the greatest calamity;
296. * Yet, in a seven-parted kingdom here below, ^ there is no supremacy among the several parts^ ^ from any pre-eminence^ in useful qualities: but all ^ the parts must reciprocally support each other^ like ^ the three staves of *a holy mendicant :
297. ^ In these and those acts, indeed^ this and ^ that member may be distinguished; and the mem- ^ ber by which any affair is transacted, has the pre- ^ eminence in that particular affair,
298. ^ When the king employs emissaries, when he
* exerts power, when he regulates publick business,
' let
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299. ' With all their several distresses and vie6s : ' let him then begin his operations^ having maturely ^ considered the greater and less importance of par- ' ticular acts:
300. ^ Let him, though frequently disappointed^ re- ^ new his operations, how fatigued soever, again and ^ again; since fortune always attends the man, who, ^ having begun well^ strenuously renews his efforts.
301. ^ All the ages, called Saiya, Trdtdy Dwdpara,
* and Caliy depend on the conduct of the king; who ^ is declared in turn, to represent each of those ^ ages :
302. * Sleeping, he is the Cali age; waking, the ^ Dwdpara; exerting himself in action, the TrdtA; ^ living virtuously, the Satya.
303. * Of Indra, of Su RYA, of Pavana, of Yamaj of ' Varuna, of Chandra, of Agni, and of Prit^hivi, let ^ the king emulate the power and attributes.
304. * As Indra sheds plentiful showers during the ^ four rainy months, thus let him, acting like the ^ regent of clouds, rain just gratifications over his ' kmgdom:
305. * As SuRYA with strong rays draws up the
* water during eight months, thus let him, perform- '■ ing the function of the sun, gradually draw from ^ his realm the legal revenue :
306. ' As
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300. ' As Pavana^ when he moves, pervades all chad.
* creatures, thus let hhn, imitatiiig the regent of ^ ^.wind, pervade all phew by his oonceafed emis-
* saries :
d07- ^ As Yam A, at the appointed time, punishes
* friends and toes, or those who revere , and those who ^ oimtemfiy him, thus let the king, resembling the ^ jiKlge of departed spirits, ptmish offending ^subjects :
308. * As Varuna most assuredly binds the guilty
* in fatal cords, thus let him, representing the genius
* of water, keep oflFenders in close confinement:
309. * When the people are no less delighted on ' seeing the king, than on seeing the full moon, he
* appears in the character of Chandra :
310. ^ Against criminals let him ever be ardent in ^ wrath, let him be splendid in glory, let him eon* ^ sume wicked ministers, thus emulating the functions ^ of Agni, regent of fire.
311. * As Prit'hivi supports all creatures equally, ^ thus a king, sustaining all subjects, resembles in ^ his office the goddess of earth.
312. ^ Engaged in these duties and in others, with
* continual activity, let the kmg, above all things ^ restrain robbers, both in his own territories and in
* those of other princes, from which they come^ or in ' which they ^ seek refuge.
313. ^ Let him not, although in the greatest distress
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IX, * (heir property; for they, once enraged, could imme-
* * diately by sacrifices and imprecaiions destroy him with
* his troops, elephants, horses and cars,
314- ^ Who, without perishing, could provoke those ^ holy men, by wliom, thai i^^ by whose anceit&rs^ ' under Brahma', the all -devouring fire was created, ' the sea with waters not drinkable, and the moon
* with its wane and increase?
315, * What prince could gain wealth by oppress-* ' ing those, who, if angry, could frame other worlds ^ and regents of worlds, could give being to new gods
* and mortals? a
316- * What man, desirous of life, would injure
* those, by the aid of whom, that is, by whose ob/a-
* tions^ worlds and gods perpetually subsist; those, ' who are rich in the learning of the Veda?
317- ^ A Brdhmeuy whether learned or ignorant, is ' a powerful divinity; even as fire is a powerful di-
* vinity, whether consecrated or popular,
318, ^ Even in places for burning the dead, the
* bright fire is undefiled; and, when presented with ' clar^ed butter at stibsequeni sacrifices, blazes again
* with extreme splendour:
319, * Thus, although Brdhmens employ themselves in
* all sorts of mean occupation, they must invariably
* be honoured; for they are something transcendently
* divine,
320, ' Of
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3120. ^ Of a military man, who raises his arm vio- chap. ^ lently on all occasions against the priestly class, the 'x.
* priest himself shall be the chastiser; since the
* soldier originally proceeded from the Brdkmen.
32L ^ From the waters arose fire; from the priest,
* the soldier; from stone, iron: their all-penetrating
* force is ineffectual in the place, whence they re- ^ spectively sprang.
322. ^ The military class cannot prosper without the ^ sacerdotal, nor can the sacerdotal be raised with- ^ out the military: both classes, by cordial union, are
* exalted in this world and in the next.
323. ^ Should the king be near his end through ^ some incurable disease^ he must bestow on the priests ^ all his riches accumulated from legal fines; and, ^ having duly committed his kingdom to his son, let ^ him seek death in battle, or^ if there be no war^
* by abstaining from food.
324. ^ Thus conducting himself, a$id ever firm in ^ discharging his royal duties, let the king employ all ^ his ministers in acts beneficial to his people.
325. ^ Hiese rules for the conduct of a military ^ man having been propounded, let mankind next hear ^ the rules for the commercial and servile classes in ^ due order.
326. ^ Let the Faisya, having been girt with his ' proper sacrificial thread, and having married an
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