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MAY, 1905.)
OHANAKYA'S LAND AND REVENUE POLICY.
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30. Or a spy, under the garb of a jogi and pretending to be proficient in witchcraft, may offor inducements to a guilty citizen of wealth to acquire more wealth by taking in aid his witchcraft, and say :
"I am proficient in such witchcraft as brings inexhaustible wealth, or entitlos a man to get admission into the king's palace, or can win the love of any woman, or can put an end to the life of ono's enemy, or can lengthen one's duration of life, or can give & son to any one if desired."
If the citizen shows any desire to carry on the process of witchcraft securing wealth, the jógi may make rich offerings, consisting of flesh, wine and soent, to the deity in such a locality wherein a dead body of a man or of a child with a little quantity of money has been previously hidden. After the performance of worship is over, the hidden treasure may be dug out and the citizon may be told that as the offerings fell short, the treasure is proportionately small; that the richest of offerings should be made to acquire vast amount of treasure, and that he may purchase with the newly acquired wealth rich offerings. Then the citizen may be caught in the very act of purchasing commodities for offering and accused of crime.
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A female spy, under the garb of a bereaved mother, may, in connection with the above case, raise an alarm, crying that her baby was stolen, when other spies may prove the identity of the baby with the dead body of the child dug up in the witchcraft of the previous night.
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Or spy, under the garb of a cooly, may enroll himself as a servant to a rich citizen of wicked conduct and mix counterfeit coins with the money in the possession of his master and make room for his arrest.
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Ora spy, under the guise of a goldsmith, may enroll himself as goldsmith to a rich citizen of mnrighteous conduct, and, gathering in the house of his master such instruments as are necessary to manufacture counterfeit coins, may allow himself, together with his master, to be arrested (and punished with confiscation of his master's property).
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Mengnres such as the above shall be taken only against the wicked and never against the innocent and virtuous.19
(AK) The Principle of Revenue Collection.
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Just as fruits are gathered from a garden as often as they become ripe, so revenue shall be colleeted from the people as often as it becomes ripe. Collection of revenue or of fruits, when unripe, shall never be carried on, lest their source may be injured and the productive capacity of the source itself may be seriously affected.
19 (Clearly the falso police case is no new invention in India. -ED.)
