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TRANSGRESSIONS OF NON-STEALING
path of prosperity and salvation. Divulging a secret is revealing what has been done in secret by a couple. Forgery is preparing false records prompted by others in order to cheat others, by affirming that one has said and done things which one has not. Misappropriation is taking for oneself gold and other things entrusted to one's care by another1.
The last is guessing others' thoughts by their posture, facial expression, etc., and proclaiming these out of envy etc. These are the five transgressions of the small vow of speaking the truth.
स्तेनप्रयोगतदाहृतादानविरुद्ध राज्यातिक्रमहीनाधिकमानोन्मान
प्रतिरूपकव्यवहाराः Stenaprayogatadahṛtādānaviruddḥarājyātikramahīnādhika
mānonmānapratirūpakavyavahārāḥ
॥ २७ ॥
(27)
27. Prompting another to steal, receiving stolen goods, underbuying in a disordered state, using false weights and measures, and deceiving others with artificial or imitation goods.
Prompting a person to steal, or prompting him through another or approving of the theft, is the first transgression. The second is receiving stolen goods from a person, whose action has neither been prompted nor approved by the recipient. Receiving or buying goods otherwise than by lawful and just means is an irregularity or a transgression. An attempt to buy precious things very cheaply in a disordered state is the third transgression. Cheating others by the use of false weights and measures in order to obtain more from others and give less to others, is the fourth transgression. Deceiving others with artificial gold, synthetic diamonds and so on, is the fifth transgression. These five are the transgressions of the vow of non-stealing.
पर विवाह करणेत्वरिकापरिगृहीताऽपरिगृहीतागमनानङ्गक्रीडाकामतीवाभिनिवेशा: Paravivahakaranetvarikaparigrhita(a)parigṛhitāgamanānangakriḍākāmatīvrābhiniveśāḥ
॥ २८ ॥
(28)
28. Bringing about marriage, intercourse with an unchaste 1 When a person deposits certain things with another, and later on takes less than what he had deposited, the other person confirms it and takes the rest for himself.
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