Manu 8.39
निधीनां तु पुराणानां धातूनाम् एव च क्षितौ । अर्धभाग् रक्षणाद् राजा भूमेर् अधिपतिर् हि सः ॥
nidhīnāṃ tu purāṇānāṃ dhātūnām eva ca kṣitau | ardhabhāg rakṣaṇād rājā bhūmer adhipatir hi saḥ ||
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
The king obtains one half of ancient hoards and metals (found) in the ground, by reason of
Translated by Georg BühlerFrom an unproofread scan of the printed edition; spelling and line breaks may carry OCR errors.