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66-68. When, therefore, any discretion is to be exercised in matter of increment and decrement (of the prescribed measure), they must be in accordance with the aforesaid directions (*śāstra*), because, otherwise, if the increment or decrement be less or more at random the master will be destroyed; therefore, the learned artists should exercise the option as directed above.