Arthashastra

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निष्पतित प्रेत व्यसनिनाम् आधाता मूल्यं भजेत ॥

sanskrit

A man who happens to have taken in mortgage the life of a convict, or of a dead or an afflicted man shall be entitled to receive back (from the mortgager) the value he paid for the slave.

english translation

niSpatita preta vyasaninAm AdhAtA mUlyaM bhajeta ॥

hk transliteration by Sanscript

siva.sh/arthashastra/dharmasthiyam/13/8

निष्पतित प्रेत व्यसनिनाम् आधाता मूल्यं भजेत ॥

sanskrit

A man who happens to have taken in mortgage the life of a convict, or of a dead or an afflicted man shall be entitled to receive back (from the mortgager) the value he paid for the slave.

english translation

niSpatita preta vyasaninAm AdhAtA mUlyaM bhajeta ॥

hk transliteration by Sanscript