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राज श्रोत्रिय ग्राम भृतक कुष्ठि व्रणिनः पतित चण्डाल कुत्सित कर्माणो अन्ध बधिर मूक अहं वादिनः स्त्री राज पुरुषाश् च, अन्यत्र स्व वर्गेभ्यः ॥

Likewise persons legally unfit to carry on transactions, the king, persons learned in the Vedas, persons depending for their maintenance on villages (grámabhritaka), lepers, persons suffering from bodily erruptions, outcast persons, persons of mean avocation, the blind, the deaf, the dumb, egotistic persons, females, or government servants shall not be taken as witnesses excepting in the case of transactions in one's own community.

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