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25. By external signs let him discover the internal disposition of men, by their voice, their colour, their motions, their aspect, their eyes, and their gestures.
26. The internal (working of the) mind is perceived through the aspect, the motions, the gait, the gestures, the speech, and the changes in the eye and of the face.
27. The king shall protect the inherited (and other) property of a minor, until he has returned (from his teacher's house) or until he has passed his minority.
28. In like manner care must be taken of barren women, of those who have no sons, of those whose family is extinct, of wives and widows faithful to their lords, and of women afflicted with diseases.
pedient' by 'what will make them angry;' Kull. and Râgh. by "what will protect the people' and 'what will destroy them.'
25–26. Yagñ. II, 15.
25. Gov. omits svara, voice,' and writes mukha, by the colour of the face.' Ingita, motions,' i. e. 'trembling, horripilation, &c.' (Medh., Gov., Râgh.), or 'looking down, &c.' (Kull.), or unintentionally moving the arms, &c.' (Nâr.). Âkâra, aspect,' i. e.
pallor, &c.' (Gov.), or 'sweating, horripilation, &c.' (Kull., Nâr.). Medh. and Râgh. take akâra to mean the manner' of the voice, &c., not as a separate class of signs. Keshfita, gestures,' i. e. moving, wringing the hands, &c.'(Gov., Kull., Râgh.), or 'intentional movements' (Nár.).
27-29. Gaut. X, 48; Vas. XVI, 8; Vi. III, 65.
27. "The minority ends with the sixteenth year' (Kull., Nár.); see Narada III, 37. The second term is intended to provide for the case of those who finish their Veda-study before the sixteenth year (Medh., Kull.), or of Sudras (Medh.).
28. Those whose family is extinct,' i. e. 'maidens in that condition' (Gov.), or those who have quitted their families and become harlots' (Medh.'others'). Wives faithful to their lords,'i. e. 'those whose husbands are absent' (Gov., Râgh.). The conditions
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