[Footnote 323: _scil._ those of the same village or country. (_M._)]
[Footnote 324: _i. e._ when not authorised by the "Sastras. Supra sl. 127.]
[Footnote 325: An outcast.]
[Footnote 326: The Commentator explains this term here by _digambara_, which is the usual designation of a Buddha mendicant.]
[Footnote 327: as if a Sudra teach the Vedas.]
[Footnote 328: Manu inflicts 600 _pa?as_, ch. 8, sl. 389.]
[Footnote 329: Thus the Commentator supplies the ellipsis.]
[Footnote 330: instead of acting as a mediator. (_M._)]
[Footnote 331: when it is agreed to decide the dispute by a wager, (_M._)]
[Footnote 332: of quant.i.ty, for water, grain, &c.]
[Footnote 333: _na?aka_, Wilson"s _Ariana antiqua_ pa. 364. The Commentator defines this word--something stamped with an impression, as a _nishka_--this is a piece of gold of a certain standard or weight.]
[Footnote 334: Manu, ch. 9, sl. 232.]
[Footnote 335: _i. e._ who, though ignorant of the _Ajur Veda_ sets up as a pract.i.tioner of the medical art. (_M._) Manu, ch. 9, sl. 284.]
[Footnote 336: The Commentator adds "without royal authority."]
[Footnote 337: After having summoned the accused to take his trial.
(_M._) This explanation shows, that the injunction applies to judicial functionaries, although in its terms general.]
[Footnote 338: literally, adds something inferior to. Manu, ch. 9, sl.
286,7.]
[Footnote 339: _e. g._ subst.i.tuting a basket of crystals for one of jewels. (_M._)]
[Footnote 340: as camphor, or musk. (_M._)]
[Footnote 341: _i. e._ combining to buy up at a low rate some foreign merchandize, or to revend it at a dear rate.]
[Footnote 342: Manu, ch. 8, sl. 398, 401, 2.]
[Footnote 343: _semble_ in the daily prices, purchasers and sellers respectively profiting by an increase or diminution of the tariff of prices.]
[Footnote 344: Literally, "expenses arising out of the commodity,"
which the Commentator explains to be, the cost of import, customs-duty, &c.]
[Footnote 345: The Commentator adds the condition, "if he have not repented him of his bargain."]
[Footnote 346: According to the Commentator this rational liberty of action is not confined to traders; he instances, "players, dancers, _and the like._"]
[Footnote 347: _scil._ for himself, separate from his partnership interest.]
[Footnote 348: The same is given by Manu; although the sovereign would appear not to have had, in those earlier days, so responsible or despotic a control of the market, ch. 8, sl. 398, 402.]
[Footnote 349: _i. e._ too good for a mere subject. The Commentator explains, "jewels, &c."]
[Footnote 350: ibid. sl. 399.]
[Footnote 351: _scil._ where the property in the goods is disputed.
(_M._) Manu, ch. 8, sl. 400.]
[Footnote 352: Land tolls or duties are a twentieth, and are leviable by the king alone. (_M._)]
[Footnote 353: on occasion of _sraddahs_, &c. Manu, ch. 8, sl. 392, where a priest for such an offence is fined a silver _masha_ (supra B.
1 sl. 363)]
[Footnote 354: Manu, ch. 8, sl. 207.]
[Footnote 355: a land-measure, _scil._ 4,000 _hats_ or cubits.]
[Footnote 356: The Commentator explains this term by quoting from Manu--"They who break into houses where a sacred fire is kept up, into a.r.s.enals, into temples--" ch. 9, sl. 276, 280.]
[Footnote 357: The subject of theft is supplied by the Commentator.]
[Footnote 358: who abstract money from the person by cutting or opening the apparel. Manu, ch. 9, sl. 277; where the third offence entails capital punishment.]
[Footnote 359: _scil._ trifling--such as, earthen vessels, stools, cots, bones, wood, leather, gra.s.s, &c.; medium--such as, apparel (other than silk), cattle (other than cows), metal (other than gold), rice, barley; highest--as, gold, jewels, silks, women, men, cows, elephants, horses, also whatever is appropriated to G.o.ds, to brahma?s, or to kings. (_M._)]
[Footnote 360: Manu, ch. 8, sl. 126; supra B. 1, sl. 367.]
[Footnote 361: Manu, ch. 9, sl. 278.]
[Footnote 362: thus causing destruction of the crops. Manu, ch. 9, sl.
279.]
[Footnote 363: unless she be pregnant. (_M._)]
[Footnote 364: These compounds might be literally translated, "woman-fond" "thing-fond" "gain-fond."]
[Footnote 365: Manu, ch. 8, sl. 356, 7, 8.]
[Footnote 366: ibid. sl. 361.]
[Footnote 367: ibid. sl. 359, 374.]
[Footnote 368: The Commentator explains--her nose, &c.]
[Footnote 369: Manu, ch. 8, sl. 364.]