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पञ्च रात्रिकं तनु रागं, षड् रात्रिकं नीलं, पुष्प लाक्षा मञ्जिष्ठा रक्तं गुरु परिकर्म यत्न उपचार्यं जात्यं वासः सप्त रात्रिकम् ॥

For keeping for more than 5 nights such clothes as are to be given thin colouring, for more than six nights such as are to be made blue, for more than 7 nights such as are to be made either as white as flowers or as beautiful and shiny as lac, saffron, or blood and such clothes as require much skill and care in making brilliant, wages shall be forfeited.

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