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यावान् अवध्यस्य वधे तावान् वध्यस्य मोक्षणे । अधर्मो नृपतेर् दृष्टो धर्मस् तु विनियच्छतः) ॥
yāvān a.vadhyasya vadhe tāvān vadhyasya mokṣaṇe | adharmo nṛpater dṛṣṭo dharmas tu viniyacchataḥ) ||
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
When a king punishes an innocent (man), his guilt is considered as great as when he sets free a guilty man; but (he acquires) merit when he punishes (justly).. Thus the (manner of) deciding suits (falling) under the eighteen titles, between two litigant parties, has been declared at length.
Translated by Georg BühlerFrom an unproofread scan of the printed edition; spelling and line breaks may carry OCR errors.