Grihya Sutras

SR No.: 007685
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

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BRIHASPATI.
XIX, 23.
of a river overflowing a tilled piece of ground, the previous owner shall recover it.
22. When land is taken from one man by a king actuated by anger or avarice, or using a fraudulent pretext, and bestowed on a different person as a mark of his favour, such a gift is not considered as valid.
23. When (however) land is taken from a person enjoying it without a legitimate title of ownership, and given to a worthier person, (the latter) must not be deprived of it.
24. A house, pool, shop or the like having been used by a man since the time of its foundation, must not be taken from him, nor diminished or altered.
25. A window, a watercourse, a peg projecting from a wall (used to hang things upon), a shed (erected in a courtyard), a square of four buildings, and a channel for the exit of water (after a rainfall) must not be blocked up, when previously constructed.
26. A privy, a fireplace, a pit, or a receptacle for leavings of food and other (rubbish), must never be made very close to the house of another man.
27. A passage by which men and animals go to and fro unprevented is called Samsarana, and must not be obstructed by any one.
28. He who purposely crowds such a place (by carts and the like), or makes a pit, or plants trees, or voids excrements, shall pay a Mashaka as a fine.
23. I read vai dattâ, with Vîram., for vâdeyâ or vâdatiâ (Ratn., Viv.).
24. Viv. p. 124; Vîram. p. 463; Ratn. p. 219. 25. Viv. p. 124; Vîram. p. 465; Ratn. p. 219. 26. Viv. p. 125; Viram. p. 464; Ratn. p. 219; May. p. 135. 27. May. p. 136; Viv. p. 125; Ratn. p. 220; Viram. p. 464. 28. Vîram. p. 465; May. p. 136.
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