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VIII, 221.
nishkas, (each of) four suvarnas, and one satamâna of silver.
221. A righteous king shall apply this law of fines in villages and castes (gâti) to those who break an agreement.
222. If anybody in this (world), after buying or selling anything, repent (of his bargain), he may return or take (back) that chattel within ten days.
223. But after (the lapse of) ten days he may neither give nor cause it to be given (back); both he who takes it (back) and he who gives it (back, except by consent) shall be fined by the king six hundred (panas).
224. But the king himself shall impose a fine of ninety-six panas on him who gives a blemished damsel (to a suitor) without informing (him of the blemish).
225. But that man who, out of malice, says of a maiden, 'She is not a maiden,' shall be fined one hundred (panas), if he cannot prove her blemish.
226. The nuptial texts are applied solely to virgins, (and) nowhere among men to females who have lost their virginity, for such (females) are excluded from religious ceremonies.
should be 'four suvarnas or six nishkas or one satamâna.' Kull. and Râgh. also think it possible that three separate fines may be inflicted according to the circumstances of the case.
222. Yâgñ. II, 177. According to Medh., Gov., Kull., the rule refers to things which are not easily spoilt, such as land, copper, &c., not to flowers, fruit, and the like; according to Nár., to grain and seeds, because in other Smritis different periods are mentioned for other objects' (see Yâgñ. loc. cit.).
224-225. Yaga. I, 66. 224. Regarding the blemishes, see above, verse 205. 226. K. omits this verse.
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