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अस्वामिना कृतो यस् तु दायो विक्रय एव वा । अकृतः स तु विज्ञेयो) व्यवहारे यथा स्थितिः ॥
asvāminā kṛto yas tu dāyo vikraya eva vā | akṛtaḥ sa tu vijñeyo) vyavahāre yathā sthitiḥ ||
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
A gift or sale, made by anybody else but the owner, must be considered as null and void, according to the rule in judicial proceedings.
Translated by Georg BühlerFrom an unproofread scan of the printed edition; spelling and line breaks may carry OCR errors.