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APPENDIX.
THEFT ?
1. Two kinds of robbers who steal the goods of others have to be distinguished, the one kind open, and the other kind concealed. Let a prudent king try to find them out.
*2. Open rogues are those who forge measures and weights, receivers of bribes, robbers, gamblers, public prostitutes,
*3. Those who walk in disguise, those who live by teaching the performance of auspicious ceremonies, these and such like persons are considered open rogues.
*4. Rogues acting in secret are those who roam in the wood, or lie concealed, as well as those who make a profession of stealing. They attack and rob (those who do not beware of them).
5. Those who infest a country, a village, or a house, or disturb a sacrificial act, cut-purses, and
* This section is found in the Nepalese MS. only. See Introduction. The reading of several passages is uncertain, and this circumstance, taken together with the want of a Commentary, renders my translation less reliable than could be desired.
Appendix. Theft. 1-4. Manu IX, 256–260. The technical terms have been translated in accordance with the glosses of Manu's commentators, as given in the notes to Professor Bühler's translation. In par. 4, mushyam seems to stand for mushtyâm.
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