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QUOTATIONS FROM NÂRADA.
8. If, then, the student after having completed his period of studentship (and returned from his preceptor) were to look after his property, possession (by a stranger) continued for fifty years would be capable of depriving him of his property.
9. Twelve years for (the study of) each Veda is the period ordained for those engaged in the pursuit of religious knowledge; for those engaged in the acquisition of mechanical (or manual) skill, the period (of apprenticeship) is declared to last till they have acquired their art.
10. What has been possessed against their wish by their friends or relations, and what has been possessed by persons offending against the king, is not lost by the lapse of (a long) time.
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IV, 8.
V. WITNESSES.
1. (By false evidence concerning land, a witness kills everything; beware, then, of giving false evidence concerning land.) In the case of (false evidence concerning) water, the consequence is said to be the same as for land, and so it is in the case of carnal connexion with a female, as well as (in the
vritto vratî kuryât svadhanânveshanam tatah | pañkâsadâbdiko bhogas taddhanasyâpahârakak prativedam dvâdasâbdah kâlo vidyarthinâm smritah | silpavidyârthinâm kaiva grahamântah prakîrtitah suhridbhir bandhubhis kaishâm yat syâd bhuktam avasyatâm nripâparâdhikâm kaiva na tat kâlena hîyate | See Manu III, 1.
V, 1-3. Vîram. p. 171. See Nârada I, 17, 209 (above, p. 92), the text immediately preceding these texts in the Vîramitrodaya. 1, 3=Manu VIII, 100, 101. All these texts, up to 10, form part of the exhortation to be addressed to the witnesses by the judge. In 2, I have substituted tathâsvavat, the reading of the Todarânanda, for tathâpnuyât.
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