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*58. A Masha should be known to be the twentieth part of a Kârshapana. A Kâkant is the fourth part of a Mâsha or Pala.
59. By that appellation which is in general use in the region of the Punjaub, the value of a Kârshậpana is not circumscribed here.
*60. A Kârshậpana has to be taken as equal to an Andikâ; four of these are a Dhânaka; twelve of the latter are a Suvarna, which is called Dinâra otherwise.
61. Let the king practise the duties of his office, and (follow) the rule of inflicting punishment, faithful to the tenets (of the sacred law). Let him destroy accordingly, as governor, the evil-doers, after having traced them by the application of cunning stratagems and arrested them.
59. The term iha, "here,' may be either referred to the place of residence of the author of the Narada-smriti, or it may mean .in this work.'
60. An Andika is elsewhere reckoned at four Yavas. In the Vîramitrodaya and other works, this text is attributed to Brihaspati. The coin called Dînâra is the Roman denarius.
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