VIII. i |j^ ^^Q hundred panas ; and fifty, for elegant qua-

* drupeds or beautiful birds, as antelopes^ parrots y and
* the like;
298. ^ For an ass, a goat, or a sheep, the fine ' must be five silver mdshas; and one mdsha^ for kil- ^ ling a dog or a boar.
299. * A WIFE, a son, a servant, a pupil, and a
* younger whole brother, may be corrected, when they 1^ ' commit faults, with a rope or the small shoot of
* a cane;
300. ' But on the back part only of their bodies,
* and not on a noble part by any means: he who
* strikes them otherwise than by this rule, incurs the
* guilt, or shall pay the Jine^ of a thief.
301. ^ This law of assault and battery has been
* completely declared: T proceed to declare the rule
* for the settled punishment of theft.
302. * In restraining thieves and robbers, let the
* king use extreme diligence; since, by restraining ' thieves and robbers, his fame and his domain are ' increased.
303. ' Constantly, no doubt, is that king to be ho- ^ noured, who bestows exemption from fear; since he ' performs, as it were, a perpetual sacrifice, giving ' exemption from fear as a constant sacrificial present.
304. * A sixth part of the reward fw virtuous deeds,
^ performed
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performed by the whole people, belongs to the chap. kmg, who protects them; but, if he protect them viii. not, a sixth part of their iniquity lights on him.
305. * Of the reward for what every subject reads in the VMa^ for what he sacrifices, for what he gives in charity, for what he performs in worship, the king justly takes a sixth part in consequence of protection.
306. ' A king, who acts with justice in defending all creatures, and slays only those, who ought to be slain, performs, as it were, each dfiy a sacrifice with a hundred thousand gifts;
307. * But a king, who gives no such protection, yet receives taxes in kind or in value, market duties and tolls, the small daily presents for his household, and fines for offences, falls directly on his death to a region of horrour.
308. ' That king, who gives no protection, yet takes a sixth part of the gram as his revenue, wise men have considered as a prince, who draws to him the foulness of all his people.
309. * Be it known, that a monarch, who pays no regard to the scriptures, who denies a future state, who acts with rapacity, who protects not his people, yet swaUows up their possessions, will sink low indeed after death.
310. * With great care and by three methods let
^ him
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CHAP. ^ him restralil the ; unjust; by imprisonment, by con-