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(3) To tear or to prick the bodily parts like ear, nose, skin etc.—that is piercing the body.
(4) To load on a man or a beast burden which it is beyond his or its capacity to bear—that is loading excessive burden.
(5) To check someone from receiving his food or crinkthat is denying food and drink.
When no particular purpose is to be served thereby these five evil acts are in no case to be undertaken by a house-holderthat is the general rule; but in case as a part of the householder's duty they are to be undertaken for some purpose or other then the need is to proceed in a soft-natured manner. 19-20. Failure-of-conduct Connected with the Vrata of Truthfulness :
(1) By telling one things true and false to mislead one into a wrong path-that is false instruction.
(2) Impelled by passion and out of fear to separate from one another a husband and a wife or two friends, alternatively, to level accusation against someone in the presence of someone else—that is false accusation in private.
(3) To produce a false document through seal, signature etc. or to circulate a counterfeit coin—that is forgery.
(4) If the person who has pledged a security forgets something connected with the fact then taking advantage of his forgetfulness to misappropriate a small or large part of the property concerned—that is misappropriating a pledged property.
(5) With a view to terminating friendship between two persons to speak ill of one to the other, alternatively, to divulge someone's secret—that is divulging someone's secret. 21.
Failures-of-conduct Connected with the Vrata of Non-theft :
(1) To rouse someone to commit theft or to get him roused to do so through someone else, or to give consent to
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