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XIX, 7.
BOUNDARY DISPUTES.
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discovered anywhere in the commodity purchased, it shall be returned to the vendor, and the purchaser shall recover the price.
XIX. BOUNDARY DISPUTES. 1. This rule regarding rescission of purchase and sale has been declared. Hear the laws concerning boundaries of villages, fields, houses, and so forth.
2. The determination of boundaries should be settled at the time of foundation, and it should be marked by visible and invisible signs, so as to dispel doubt.
3. Wells, tanks, pools, large trees, gardens, temples, mounds, channels, the course of a river, reeds, shrubs, or piles of stones:
4. By such visible signs as these a boundary line should always be caused to be marked; also, by other (marks) deposited underground which the earth is not likely to destroy.
5. Dry cowdung, bones, chaff, charcoal, stones, potsherds, sand, bricks, cows' tails, cotton seeds, and ashes :
6. After having placed these substances in vessels, one should deposit them underground at the extremities of the boundary. After that, one should take care to point them out to youths and infants.
7. These (youths and infants) should again show them to their own children, after having grown old;
XIX, 1. Ratn. p. 201.
2. Rain. p. 202. Invisible signs' are substances deposited underground.
3, 4. Viv. p. 120; Ratn. p. 203; Vîram. p. 452. 5, 6. Ratn. p. 204 ; May. p. 134; Viram. pp. 452, 453. 7. Ratn. p. 204.
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| SR No. | 007685 |
| Book Title | Grihya Sutras |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Hermann Oldenberg |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1886 |
| Total Pages | 2642 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 49 MB |