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6. The creditor must make good the loss of a pledge, unless it was caused by fate or by the king.
VI, 16.
LAW OF DEBT.
7. (The pledge must) also (be restored to the debtor) when the interest has reached its maximum amount (on becoming equal to the principal, and has all been paid).
8. But he must not restore an immovable pledge without special agreement (till the principal itself has been paid).
9. That immovable property which has been delivered, restorable when the sum borrowed is made good, (the creditor) must restore when the sum borrowed has been made good.
10. Property lent bears no further interest after it has been tendered, but refused by the creditor.
II. On gold the interest shall rise no higher than to make the debt double;
12. On grain, (no higher than to make it) threefold;
13. On cloth, (no higher than to make it) fourfold;
14. On liquids, (no higher than to make it) eightfold;
15. Of female slaves and cattle, the offspring (shall be taken as interest).
16. On substances from which spirituous liquor
7. Colebrooke loc. cit. connects this Sûtra with the next. My rendering rests on Nand.'s interpretation.
8. Nand. cites as an instance of an agreement of this kind one made in the following form, 'You shall have the enjoyment of this or that mango grove as long as interest on the principal lent to me has not ceased to accrue.'
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