Arthashastra

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कैवर्तक अष्ट तृण भार पुष्प फल वाट षण्ड गो पालकानाम् अनत्ययः, सम्भाव्य दूत अनुपातिनां च सेना भाण्ड प्रयोगाणां च स्व तरणैस् तरताम्, बीज भक्त द्रव्य उपस्करांश् च आनूप ग्रामाणां तारयताम् ॥

Fishermen, carriers of firewood, grass, flowers, and fruits, gardeners, vegetable-dealers, and herdsmen, persons pursuing suspected criminals, messengers following other messengers going in advance, servants engaged to carry things, provisions, and orders to the army, those who use their own ferries, as well as those who supply villages of marshy districts with seeds, necessaries of life, commodities and other accessary things shall be exempted (to cross rivers at any time and place).

english translation

kaivartaka aSTa tRNa bhAra puSpa phala vATa SaNDa go pAlakAnAm anatyayaH, sambhAvya dUta anupAtinAM ca senA bhANDa prayogANAM ca sva taraNais taratAm, bIja bhakta dravya upaskarAMz ca AnUpa grAmANAM tArayatAm ॥

hk transliteration by Sanscript