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from enjoying a ride or drive; from having many followers; from buying, selling, doing business with Mâshas”, half Mâshas, and Rupees; from silver, gold, riches, corn, precious stones, pearls, conches, stones, and corals; from using wrong weights and measures; from undertakings and slaughter; from working and making others work; from cooking and making others cook; from cutting, pounding, threatening, beating, binding, killing, and causing pain ; and whatever other suchlike wicked and sinful actions of worthless men there be, that cause pains to other beings: these men do not abstain from them as long as they live. (62)
As some idle, cruel men wantonly injure Kalama”, Masûra 3, sesamum, Mudga 4, beans, Nishpâva , Kulattha, Âlisanda?, Êlamikkha, so an idle, cruel man wantonly hurts partridges, ducks, quails, pigeons, francoline partridges, deer, buffaloes, boars, iguanas, tortoises, and snakes.
A man will (occasionally) severely punish even the smallest offence of his domestics, viz. a slave or messenger or hired servant or vassalo or parasite; e.g. punish him, pull out his hair, beat him, put him in irons, in fetters, in stocks, into prison, screw up in a pair of shackles (his hands and feet)
1 Masha is a weight of gold. 2 A sort of rice. 3 A sort of pulse or lentil.
• A sort of kidney-bean. Probably Dolichos Sinensis. 6 A sort of pulse, Dolichos Uniflorus.
7 I cannot identify this plant, our dictionaries do not contain this or a similar word.
8 This word ought perhaps to be divided in two; elâ are cardamoms, but what mikkha is I cannot say.
. Bhâgilla =bhâgika, one who gets the sixth part of the products (e.g. of agriculture of the work for which he is hired.
