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donkeys. Their dress (shall be) the garments of the dead, (they shall eat) their food from broken dishes, black iron (shall be) their ornaments, and they must always wander from place to place. A man who fulfils a religious duty, shall not seek intercourse with them; their transactions (shall be) among themselves, and their marriages with their equals. Their food shall be given to them by others (than Aryan giver) in a broken dish; at night they shall not walk about in village and in towns. By day they may go about for the purpose of their work, distinguished by marks at king's command and they shall carry out the corpses of persons who have no relatives; that is settled rule. By the king's order they shall always execute criminals, in accordance with the law, and they shall take for themselves the clothes, the beds
and the ornaments of such criminals”, Bühler (tr.), The Laws of Manu, 10.51-56. 55. Mātulapitrşvasābhaginībhāgineyisnuşāmātulānisakhivadhūr ity agamyāh, BŚs. 2.2.11. 56. Bhrātur jyeșthasya bhāryā ya gurupatny anujasya să /
Yavīyasas tu ya bhäryä snuşā jyesthasya să smrtā // Jyeștho yavīyaso bhāryām yavīyān vāgrajastriyam / Patitau bhavato gatvā niyuktāv apy anāpadi // Manu.9.57-58.
57. Aniyuktasutaś caiva putriny aptaś ca devarāt/
Ubhau tau närhato bhāgam jārajātakakāmajau // Manu. 9. 143.
58. Niyuktau yau vidhiri hitvā varteyātām tu kāmatah /
Tāv ubhau patitau syātāni snusāgagurutalpagau // Manu. 9.63.
59. Sakhibhāryākumārīsu svayonisy antyajāsu ca/
Sagotrāsu sutastrīsu gurutalpasaman smrtam // Pituḥ svasāram mātuś ca mătulānī snuşām api / Mātuḥ sapatnim blaginīm ācāryatānayām tathā // Ācāryaptnī svasutām gacchanıś ca gurutalpagah /
lingar chitvā vadhas tasya sakāmāyāḥ striyās tathā // YS. 3.231-233. 60. Manu. 9.59; 152.
61. Naudvāhikeșu mantresu niyogah kūrtyate kvacit /
Na vivāhavidhāv uktar vidhavāvedanam punah // Ayari dvijair hi vidvadbhih pasudharmo vigarhitah /
Manusyäņām api prokte vene rājyam prasāsati // Manu. 9.65-66. 62. Kānīnaś ca sahodhaś ca krītah paunarbhavas tathā /
Svāyamdattaś ca sūdras ca şad adāyādabāndhavāh // Manu. 9.160.
