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7. Next (the judge) should adjure by (the following) imprecations the balance
8. And the person appointed to look after the weighing :
9. "Those places of torture which have been prepared for the murderer of a Brâhmana, or for a false witness, the same places are ordained for a person appointed to look after the weighing, who acts fraudulently in his office.
10. Thou, O balance (dhata), art called by the same name as holy law (dharma); thou, O balance, knowest what mortals do not comprehend.
11. “This man, being arraigned in a cause, is weighed upon thee. Therefore mayest thou deliver him lawfully from this perplexity.'
12. Thereupon the judge should have him placed into the one scale again. If he rises in it, he is freed from the charge according to law.
13. In case of the strings bursting, or of the splitting of the transverse beam, the man should be placed in the scale once more. Thus the facts will be ascertained positively, and a just sentence be the result.
XI. 1. Now follows the (rule regarding the ordeal by) fire.
2. He must make seven circles, sixteen Angulas 1 in breadth each, the intervals being of the same breadth.
3. Thereupon he must place seven leaves of the XI. 2-9. Y. II, 103, 105-107. – 11. Y. II, 104. 2. 1 See X, 2, note. 3. Nand. takes the term tatah, “thereupon,' to imply that he
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