Matsya Purana 227.13
Matsyapurāṇa 227.13
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227.13
visamvadennaro lobhāt taṃ rāṣṭrādvipra vāsayet.
krītvā vikrayavān kiñcit yasyehānuśayo bhavet .. 227.12 ..
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
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- The Matsya Puranam — A Taluqdar of Oudh 1916, English