for his household, and fines for offences, falls 'directly on his death to a region of horrour.

308. That king, who gives no protection,

yet takes a fixth part of the grain as his revenue, wife men have confidered as a prince, 'who draws to him the foulness of all his

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people. 309.

Be it known, that a monarch, who pays no regard to the fcriptures, who denies a future ftate, who acts with rapacity, who protects not his people, yet fwallows up their pof'feffions, will fink low indeed after death.

310. 'WITH great care and by three methods let him reftrain the unjuft; by imprisonment, by confinement in fetters, and by various kinds 'or corporal punishment;

311. Since, by restraining the bad, and by encouraging the good, kings are perpetually 'made pure, as the twiceborn are purified by 'facrificing.

312. 'A KING, who feeks benefit to his own

foul, muft always forgive parties litigant, chil

dren, old men, and fick perfons, who inveigh ' against him :

313.

He, who forgives perfons in pain, ⚫ when they abuse him, shall on that account be 'exalted in heaven; but he, who excufes them

not, through the pride of dominion, shall for 'that reafon fink into hell.

314. THE stealer of gold from a priest muft 'run haftily to the king, with loofened hair, proclaiming the theft, and adding: "Thus * have I finned; punish me."

315. He must bear on his fhoulder a pestle ⚫ of ftone, or a club of c'hadira-wood, or a javelin pointed at both ends, or an iron mace:

316. Whether the king strike him with it, or difmifs him unhurt, the thief is then abfolved 'from the crime; but the king, if he punish him not, fhall incur the guilt of the thief.

317. "The killer of a priest, or destroyer of an embryo, cafts his guilt on the willing eater of his provifions; an adulterous wife, on her negligent hufband; a bad scholar and facrificer, on 'their ignorant preceptor; and a thief, on the • forgiving prince:

318. But men, who have committed offences, and have received from kings the punishment ' due to them, go pure to heaven, and become as clear as thofe, who have done well.

319. HE, who fteals the rope or the waterpot ⚫ from a well, and he, who breaks down a ciftern, ' fhall be fined a másba of gold; and that, which • he has taken or injured, he must restore to its • former condition.

320. Corporal punishment fhall be inflicted • on him, who fteals more than ten cumbhas of • grain (a cumbba is twenty drónas, and a dróna,

two hundred palas): for lefs he must be fined. eleven times as much, and fhall pay to the owner the amount of his property.

321. So fhall corporal punishment be in'flicted for ftealing commodities ufually fold by weight, or more than a hundred head of cattle, ⚫ or gold, or filver, or coftly apparel:

322. 'For ftealing more than fifty palas, it ' is enacted that a hand fhall be amputated; for lefs, the king shall fet a fine eleven times as much as the value.

323. For ftealing men of high birth, and women above all, and the most precious gems, diamonds or rubies, the thief deferves capital s punishment.

324.

For ftealing large beafts, weapons, or medicines, let the king inflict adequate punish'ment, confidering the time and the act.

325. For taking kine belonging to priests,

• and boring their noftrils, or for stealing their "other cattle, the offender fhall instantly lose half of one foot.

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326. For ftealing thread, raw cotton, mate*rials to make spirituous liquor, cowdung, molaffes, curds, milk, buttermilk, water, or grafs,

327. Large canes, baskets of canes, falt of

every kind, earthenpots, clay or afhes,

328. Fish, birds, oil, or clarified butter, fleshmeat, honey, or any thing, as leather, horn, or ivory, that came from a beaft,

329.

'Or other things not precious, or fpirituous liquors, rice dreffed with clarified butter, ⚫ or other meffes of boiled rice, the fine muft be ⚫ twice the value of the commodity ftolen.

330. For stealing as much as a man can carry of flowers, green corn, fhrubs, creepers, small • trees, or other vegetables, enclosed by a hedge, the fine fhall be five racticas of gold or fil

• ver;

331. 'But for corn, potherbs, roots, and fruit, • unenclosed by a fence, the fine is a hundred panas, if there be no fort of relation between the • taker and owner; or half a hundred, if there be fuch relation.

332. If the taking be violent, and in the fight of the owner, it is robbery; if privately in his abfence, it is only theft; and it is con"fidered as theft, when a man, having received any thing, refuses to give it back.

333. On him, who fteals the beforementioned things, when they are prepared for ufe, let the 'king fet the lowest amercement of the three; and the fame on him, who fteals only fire from ⚫ the temple.

334. • With whatever limb a thief commits the offence by any means in this world, as if he break a wall with his hand or his foot, even ⚫ that limb fhall the king amputate, for the pre⚫vention of a fimilar crime.

335. NEITHER a father, nor a preceptor, nor

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a friend, nor a mother, nor a wife, nor a fon, nor a domestick priest, must be left unpunished

by the king, if they adhere not with firmness to their duty.

336.

WHERE another man of lower birth 'would be fined one pana, the king shall be fined

a thoufand, and he fhall give the fine to the priefts, or caft it into the river: this is a facred

• rule.

337. 'But the fine of a Súdra for theft fhall be eightfold; that of a Vaifya, fixteenfold; that • of a Chatriya, two and thirtyfold.

338. That of a Bráhmen, four and fixtyfold, ⚫ or a hundredfold complete, or even twice four ' and fixtyfold; each of them knowing the na6 ture of his offence.

339. The taking of roots, and fruit from a a large tree, in a field or a foreft unenclosed, or ' of wood for a facrificial fire, or of grass to be eaten by cows, MENU has pronounced no • theft.

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340. "A PRIEST who willingly receives any thing, either for facrificing or for inftructing, from the hand of a man, who had taken what ⚫ the owner had not given, fhall be punished even 6 as the thief.

341. A twiceborn man, who is travelling, and whose provisions are scanty, shall not be