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NÂRADA.
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40. When a field is situate on the borders of a village, or contiguous to a pasture ground, or adjacent to a high road, the herdsman is not reprehensible for the destruction of grain (in that field), if the field is not protected by a fence.
*41. On (that side of) the field which faces the road a fence shall be made over which a camel cannot look, nor cattle or horses jump, and which a boar cannot break through.
* 42. A householder's house and his field are considered as the two fundaments of his existence. Therefore let not the king upset either of them; for that is the root of householders.
43. When his people are flourishing, the religious merit and the treasure of a king are sure to be in a flourishing state as well. When (the people) cease to prosper, (his merit and his treasure) are sure to abate as well. Therefore he must never lose sight of (that) cause of prosperity.
XI, 40.
TWELFTH TITLE OF LAW.
THE MUTUAL DUTIES OF HUSBAND AND WIFE.
* 1. That title of law in which the legal rules for women and men regarding marriage and the other
40. 'Pasture ground,' a meadow reserved for feeding cows or other cattle. Ratnakara. See Colebrooke's Digest, III, 4, 27. Manu VIII, 238, 240; Vishnu V, 147, 148; Gautama XII, 21; Yagnavalkya II, 162.
41. Manu VIII, 239.
42. This maxim shows that the compiler of the Nârada-smriti wrote for an essentially agricultural people.
XII, 1. Manu IX, 1.
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