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Matsyapurana 227.11

Matsyapurāṇa 227.11

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227.11

sa daṇḍyaḥ kṛṣmalānyaṣṭau na deyañcāsya vetanam.
saṃgṛhītaṃ na dadyādyaḥ kāle vetanameva ca .. 227.10 ..

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

A Taluqdar of Oudh 1916, The Matsya Puranam

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