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DINKARD, BOOK VIII.
figure of any one sheep, and the regulation of every one.
27. About how the debtor has to announce the nature of the loan, which the lender, through irritation, does not approve; and, when the debtor has provided for a triple issue, when for a double issue, and even when he has for a single issue, the first year is free from begging his own time. 28. About the debtor and what he repays, when each year is announced and he does not assent; and how it happens, as regards the debtor, through many repayments, and all the postponements of the lender 2.
29. About causing the confiscation (pâdîrângarth) of a human being (gerpih), and its cessation * owing to worldly work, where it is for one month, or, thence onwards, for a second, a third, a sixth, a ninth, or a year at worldly work, and where it is regarding several human beings; the production of gain which accrues upon that single human being; and whatever is on the same subject. 30. About the confiscation of a cloak (gudâd) in the winter, and of a skin-bag for holding water (maskŏ-î âvdânŏ) in the summer; about whom they are appertaining to, on the passing by of the first ten nights, where it is after the bringing out of the cloak at the beginning of winter, and of the water-skin at the beginning of summer; or prior to the length of a month previous,
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1 Supposing that madam stands for maman; the two words being sometimes confounded.
Who allows the debtor a longer time for repayment.
Literally 'bodily form.' The seizure of a slave of the debtor to work off the amount of the debt is evidently meant.
Reading va-sakis no instead of the very similarly-written nikézisno, 'explanation,' of the MS.
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| SR No. | 007682 |
| Book Title | Questions of King Milinda Part 02 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | T W Rhys Davids |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1894 |
| Total Pages | 2240 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 38 MB |