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XXVII, 22–26.
day (after the decease of a person) or at some other Sraddha.
22. Others, after lending grain, take twice as much back in the autumn season and occupy the embanked land, after having received twice the amount lent,
23. Though the principal has been repaid. This is reprehensible also. Such forbidden practices (the king) should check (when they are resorted to) through folly.
24. Such customs as are not opposed to the laws of particular countries and castes or other (corporations), every king should establish in accordance with the sacred law, after consulting the law-books.]
25. Thus let the king every day examine, in common with learned Brahmans, both the suits proffered by litigants and those instituted by the king (himself).
26. When the safety of many may be effected by destroying a single offender, his execution is productive of religious merit (even).
25. Ratn. p. 618.
26. Smritik. ekasmin yatra nidhanam prâpite dush/akârini i bahûnâm bhavati kshemas tasya punyaprado vadhah 11
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