Matsya Purana 227.10
Matsyapurāṇa 227.10
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227.10
pratiśrutyā pradātāraṃ suvarṇaṃ daṇḍayennṛpaḥ.
bhṛtyaścājñāṃ na kuryādyo darpātkarma yathoditam .. 227.9 ..
One who does not confer a promised gift on some one should be fined of gold. A disobedient servant should be fined 8 rattis of gold along with his unpaid wages. The master who does not pay his servant at the right time and dismisses him without a fair cause, should be fined 100 Krisnalas. One who promises to give away a village country or grain fields etc. and afterwards goes back upon his word and tells false should be banished from his kingdom by a sovereign. If anyone does not pay or get balance of the value of a thing that he bought or sold within ten days of the bargain then the seller or purchaser should be fined six hundred Krisnalas by the king.—9-13
Translations (1)
- The Matsya Puranam — A Taluqdar of Oudh 1916, English
Linked texts (5)
- Agnipurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit
- Matsya — Sanskrit
- Vyavahāraprakāśa (Mitramiśra) — Mitramiśra 1753, Sanskrit
- Madanaratna — Madanasiṃha, Sanskrit
- Rājanītiprakāśa (Mitramiśra) — Mitramiśra, Sanskrit