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सामन्तानाम् अभावे तु मौलानां सीम्नि साक्षिणाम् । इमान् अप्य् अनुयुञ्जीत) पुरुषान् वनगोचरान् ॥
sāmantānām abhāve tu maulānāṃ sīmni sākṣiṇām | imān apy anuyuñjīta) puruṣān vana.gocarān ||
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
On failure of neighbours (who are) original inhabitants (of the country and can be) witnesses with respect to the boundary, (the king) may hear the evidence even of the following inhabitants of the forest,
Translated by Georg BühlerFrom an unproofread scan of the printed edition; spelling and line breaks may carry OCR errors.