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public way' (Kane, o.c., p. 500) is meant, one would have liked to know the reasons for D.'s differing from the opinio communis (which I still find much more convincing).
45 In fn. 2 on p. 129 of his edition Derrett justly points out that what J.J. Meyer (0.c., p. 127) considered to be the correct reading here, viz. parivrte, is actually found in his manuscript and is confirmed also by Bhāruci on his part (cf. the passage quoted in fn. 44).
46 The text-as given by Derrett, o.c., Pt. I, p. 129_reads
thus: tatrāparivrtam dhanyam vihimsyuh paśavo yadi / na tatra pranayed dandam nrpatiḥ paśu-rakṣiņām // 238 vrtim tatra tu kurvita yām uştro nāvalokayet / chidram cāvārayet sarvam śva-sūkara-mukhānugam // 239 pathi kşetre 'parivrte grāmāntiye 'thavā punaḥ / sa pälah sata-dandārho vipālam vārayet pašum // 240 kşetreşv anyeșu tu paśuḥ sapādam paņam arhati / sarvatra tu śato deyaḥ kşetrikasyeti dhāraņā // 241 anirdaśāhām gām sutām vrşān deva-paśūms tathā /
sapālān vā 'py apālān vā na dandyan Manur abravit || 242 In this connection I cannot help remembering an observation I made in Nepal in 1972 which spotlights the consequences the rule (given in the last of these verses) may have in reality. Among the various and quite impressive 'holy' bulls which at that time used to stroll in the streets of Kathmandu, but which one could also meet in the already rural outskirts of the city, there was a dappled one of which I was particularly fond. One day--the rainy season had already started a couple of weeks earlier and the valley had turned almost totally into a paddy field-I met him again in the bazar, but one of his hind quarters was nothing but a continous stretch of almost raw flesh. Upon inquiry I was told that he had obviously been sprinkled with kerosene—which had then, of course, been set on fire- in order to drive him once and for ever away from the paddy fields where he had been caught grazing. Ruthless cruelty to animals including members of the bovine species is unfortunately not so rare a phenomenon in India (and
