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by labour (alone) that the value of the food consumed during a famine can be repaid.
* 32. One pledged (is released) when his master redeems him by discharging the debt. If, however, he causes (the pledgee) to take him in lieu of payment, he becomes equal to a purchased slave.
*33. It is by paying his debt with interest, that a debtor is released from slavery. One enslaved for a stipulated period recovers freedom on the expiration of that period.
V, 39.
CONTRACTS OF SERVICE.
* *34. One who has come forward declaring, 'I am thine,' one made a prisoner in war, and one won through a wager, these are released on giving a substitute whose capacity for work is equal to theirs.
*35. An apostate from asceticism shall become the king's slave. He can never be emancipated, nor is there any expiation of his crime.
*36. One who has become a slave in order to get a maintenance, is released at once on giving up the said subsistence. One enslaved on account of his being connected with a female slave is released on parting with her.
* 37. That wretch who, being independent, sells himself, is the vilest of slaves. He cannot be released from bondage.
*38. Those who are sold after having been captured by robbers, and those who are enslaved by forcible means, must be emancipated by the king. Their slavery is not legal.
*39. In the inverse order of the (four) castes,
33. Yâgnavalkya II, 182.
35. Yagnavalkya II, 183. 36. The Mitâksharâ (p. 270) declares that sexual intercourse with a slave is prohibited. Yâgñavalkya II, 182.
38. Yâgйavalkya II, 182.
39. As a man of the highest caste may marry a wife of an
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| SR No. | 007685 |
| Book Title | Grihya Sutras |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Hermann Oldenberg |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1886 |
| Total Pages | 2642 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 49 MB |