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VIII, 89.
him) with (the guilt of) every crime that causes loss of caste;
89. (Saying), Whatever places (of torment) are assigned (by the sages) to the slayer of a Brâhmana, to the murderer of women and children, to him who betrays a friend, and to an ungrateful man, those shall be thy (portion), if thou speakest falsely.
90. '(The reward) of all meritorious deeds which thou, good man, hast done since thy birth, shall become the share of the dogs, if in thy speech thou departest from the truth.
91. "If thou thinkest, О friend of virtue, with respect to thyself, “ I am alone,” (know that) that sage who witnesses all virtuous acts and all crimes, ever resides in thy heart.
92. 'If thou art not at variance with that divine Yama, the son of Vivasvat, who dwells in thy heart, thou needest neither visit the Ganges nor the (land of the) Kurus.
93. "Naked and shorn, tormented with hunger and thirst, and deprived of sight, shall the man who gives false evidence, go with a potsherd to beg food at the door of his enemy.
94. 'Headlong, in utter darkness shall the sinful man tumble into hell, who being interrogated in a judicial inquiry answers one question falsely.
95. •That man who in a court (of justice) gives an untrue account of a transaction (or asserts a fact) of which he was not an eye-witness, resembles a blind man who swallows fish with the bones.
96. "The gods are acquainted with no better man
kine, &c.' (Medh.), or with the guilt of the theft of kine, &c.' (Gov., Kull., Ragh.), or 'with the loss of his kine, &c.'(Nar.), or by making him touch a cow, &c.' (Nand.).
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