Arthashastra

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सूतिका चिकित्सक प्रेत प्रदीप यान नागरिक तूर्य प्रेक्षा अग्नि निमित्तं मुद्राभिश् च ग्राह्याः ॥

sanskrit

Those who go out at night in order to attend to the work of midwifery or medical treatment, or to carry off a dead body to the cremation or burial grounds, or those who go out with a lamp in hand at night, as well as those who go out to visit the officer in charge of the city, or to find out the cause of a trumpet sound (turyapreksha), or to extinguish the outbreak of fire or under the authority of a pass shall not be arrested.

english translation

sUtikA cikitsaka preta pradIpa yAna nAgarika tUrya prekSA agni nimittaM mudrAbhiz ca grAhyAH ॥

hk transliteration by Sanscript

siva.sh/arthashastra/adhyaksa-pracara/36/38

सूतिका चिकित्सक प्रेत प्रदीप यान नागरिक तूर्य प्रेक्षा अग्नि निमित्तं मुद्राभिश् च ग्राह्याः ॥

sanskrit

Those who go out at night in order to attend to the work of midwifery or medical treatment, or to carry off a dead body to the cremation or burial grounds, or those who go out with a lamp in hand at night, as well as those who go out to visit the officer in charge of the city, or to find out the cause of a trumpet sound (turyapreksha), or to extinguish the outbreak of fire or under the authority of a pass shall not be arrested.

english translation

sUtikA cikitsaka preta pradIpa yAna nAgarika tUrya prekSA agni nimittaM mudrAbhiz ca grAhyAH ॥

hk transliteration by Sanscript