Matsya Purana 227.2
Matsyapurāṇa 227.2
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227.2
matsya uvāca.
nikṣepyasya samaṃ mūlyaṃ daṇḍye nikṣepabhuk tathā.
vasrādikasamastasya tadā dharmo na hīyate .. 227.1 ..
Matsya said :—One who has misappropriated anything placed under his custody should be fined by a king which should be equivalent to the value of the thing misappropriated. A king will not thereby lose his religion.—1
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- The Matsya Puranam — A Taluqdar of Oudh 1916, English