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to Āpastamba,if any one uses wrong measure, he should not be invited to a Srāddha. The Buddha says that if a person carns. money by weighing less, he is a liar. In the Mahānārada Kassapajātaka,3 there is a reference to a Weighing House. Weights made of steatite and jasper of different denominations discovered in excavations at Eran, Vaiśāli and Chirand also prove that commodities were weighed and sold.
1. An. Dk. S. 2.6.19. 2. Digha, 8. 3. 43. Vol. 3, p. 134. 3. Ja, Vol. VI, p. 119.
