Zend Avesta Part 03

SR No.: 007673
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: L H Mills
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1887
Total Pages: 2618
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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BRIHASPATI.
XIII, 9.
paying half the price (tendered), the custom in that case being that one half of the value is lost to each of the two.
9. A purchase from an unknown (vendor) is one fault (in that case); want of care in keeping it is another; these two faults are viewed by the wise as legitimate grounds of loss to each party.
10. When a man purchases (a commodity) at a fair price, and (the purchase) has been previously announced to the king, there is no wrong about it; but he who makes a fraudulent purchase is a thief.
11. That should be known as a fraudulent purchase which is made at an unreasonably low price, in the interior of a house, outside of the village, at night, in secret, or from a dishonest person.
XIV. CONCERNS OF À PARTNERSHIP. 1, Trade or other occupations should not be carried on by prudent men jointly with incompetent or lazy persons, or with such as are afflicted by an illness, ill-fated, or destitute.
2. A man should carry on business jointly with persons of noble parentage, clever, active, intelligent, familiar with coins, skilled in revenue and expenditure, honest, and enterprising.
3. As an equal, smaller, or larger share (of the
10, 11. Viv. p. 60; Vîram. p. 375; Col. Dig. II, 2, 57. In 10, Colebrooke has delivered by the owner in the presence of credible persons. I have translated the reading of the Vîramitrodaya,
previously announced to the king. In it, the clause 'in secret' is omitted in the Viramitrodaya.
XIV, 1, 2. Ratn. p. 111; Col. Dig. II, 3, 2; Viram. pp. 383, 384.
3. Ratn. p. 112; Col. Dig. II, 3, 5.
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