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trafficking (sûdakih)”, attention to trifles, and unbelief in the religion.
8. The vices of warriors are oppression, violence, promise-breaking, unmercifulness (an-avôkhshagavandih), ostentation (dakhshih)?, haughtiness, and arrogance.
9. The vices of husbandmen are ignorance, enviousness, ill-will, and maliciousness.
10. 'And the vices of artizans are unbelief, want of thanksgiving, improper muttering of prayers, moroseness, and abusiveness.'
Chapter LX. 1. The sage asked the spirit of wisdom (2) thus : Of mankind which are more conversant with good and evil ?'
3. The spirit of wisdom answered (4) thus: 'Of mankind he whose sojourn 3 and business are with the bad“, and they provide him a name for good repute and goodness, is the man more conversant with good. 5. And he whose sojourn and business are with the good, and they provide him a name for disrepute, is the man more conversant with
evil.
6. “Because it is said, (7, 8) that whoever joins with the good brings good with him, and whoever
1 Or, perhaps, usuriousness.' The Sanskrit version has 'laziness,' as if Nêr. had read â sûdakîh. .
? Nêr. has read gahî, and translated 'incontinence.'
3 Reading nisastó. L19 has ó whose business is most (vês-ast), both here and in $ 5. * L19 has the good!'
L19 has 'the bad.'
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