Dhammapada

SR No.: 007674
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Max Muller
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1881
Total Pages: 2540
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 45 MB

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VASISHTHA.
XVI, 8.
8. (Likewise the property) of persons unfit to transact legal business (minors, widows, and so forth).
9. But if (a minor) comes of age, his property must be made over to him.
10. It is declared in the Smriti that there are three kinds of proof which give a title to (property, viz.) documents, witnesses, and possession; (thereby) an owner may recover property which formerly belonged to him (but was lost).'
11. From fields through which (there is a right of) road (a space sufficient for the road) must be set apart, likewise a space for turning (a cart).
12. Near new-built houses (and) other things (of the same description there shall be) a passage three feet broad.
13. In a dispute about a house or a field, reliance (may be placed on the depositions of) neighbours. : 14. If the statements of the neighbours disagree, documents (may be taken as) proof.
the infant children of a hostile king who has been conquered and slain. It is, however, not improbable that it has a wider sense, and exhorts the king to look after the property of the children of his predecessor and of deceased feudal barons.
8-9. Gautama X, 48; Vishnu III, 65. 10. Yâgñavalkya II, 22.
II. Krishnapandita quotes in illustration of this Sutra the following passage of Sankha and Likhita : 'In a field through which (there is a right of) road, (space) for the road must be set apart, and on the king's high-road a space sufficient for turning a chariot.
12. Arthântareshu, 'near other things of the same description),' means, according to Krishnapandita, near pleasure-gardens and the like.' No doubt, buildings of all kinds, fenced or walled gardens, and so forth are meant. I read tripâdamâtram.
13. Manu VIII, 258, 262; Yagñavalkya II, 150, 152, 154.
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