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NON-PAYMENT OF WAGES.
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been fully explained; I will next propound (the law for) the non-payment of wages.
215. A hired (servant or workman) who, without being ill, out of pride fails to perform his work according to the agreement, shall be fined eight krishnalas and no wages shall be paid to him.
216. But (if he is really) ill, (and) after recovery performs (his work) according to the original agree. ment, he shall receive his wages even after (the lapse of) a very long time.
217. But if he, whether sick or well, does not (perform or) cause to be performed (by others) his work according to his agreement, the wages for that work shall not be given to him, even (if it be only) slightly incomplete.
218. Thus the law for the non-payment of wages has been completely stated; I will next explain the law concerning men who break an agreement.
219. If a man belonging to a corporation inhabiting a village or a district, after swearing to an agreement, breaks it through avarice, (the king) shall banish him from his realm,
220. And having imprisoned such a breaker of an agreement, he shall compel him to pay six
2 I5. Âp. II, 28, 2-3; Vi. V, 153-154; Yậgõ. II, I93. Eight krishnalas,' i. e. 'of gold, silver or copper, according to the case' (Medh., Gov.), or of gold' (Kull.).
216. I read with Medh., Gov., Nár., Râgh., and K. sudîrghasya for sa dirghasya (Kull., Nand.).
219. Vi. V, 168; Yâgî. II, 192. By 'corporations inhabiting a village or district' are meant according to Medh., village communities and corporations of merchants, mendicants or monks, Katurvedis and so forth, and he mentions regulations regarding the grazing of the cattle on a common as one of the agreements which all must observe.
220. According to others mentioned by Medh. the translation
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