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IX, 3.
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3. When the purchaser returns it on the second day (after the purchase has been made), he shall lose a thirtieth part of the price. (He shall lose) twice as much on the third day. After that time, the purchaser is bound to keep it.
*4. The (intending) purchaser shall first examine an article (before purchasing it), in order to find out its good and bad qualities. That which has been approved by the purchaser after close examination, cannot be returned to the vendor.
*5. Milch cattle may be examined for three days; animals of burden, for five days; and in the case of precious stones, pearls, and coral, the period of examination may extend over seven days.
*6. Bipeds shall be examined within half a month; a female, within twice the same (space of time); all sorts of grain, within ten days; iron and clothes, within a single day.
*7. A worn gown, which is in a ragged condition and soiled with dirt, cannot be returned to the vendor, if it was in that blemished state at the time when the purchase was effected.
*8. Wearing apparel loses the eighth part of its value on being washed for the first time; the fourth
IX, 3. 'He shall lose a thirtieth part,' he shall give one-thirtieth part more than the stipulated price. 'Twice as much,' i. e. a fifteenth. See Colebrooke's Digest, III, 3, 5.
5, 6. For three days,' including the day of purchase. The terms for five days,' &c., have to be interpreted in the same way. 'Milch cattle,' such as e.g. female buffaloes. 'Animals of burden,' such as e.g. young bulls. 'Bipeds,' males, i. e. male slaves. 'Twice the same space of time,' a month. A female,' a female slave. Viramitrodaya, pp. 433, 434. Manu VIII, 222; Yâgñavalkya II, 177.
8, 9. When apparel has been given to a washerman to be washed by him, he is bound to make good the value of that
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