Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c45.40

c45.40

¹ Text—*Ch.* VI, 4, 9. उपसङ्कमित्वा जेतं कुमारं एतद वोच: देहि मे अय्यपुत्त उय्यानं आरामं कातुम् ति। अदेय्यो गहपति आरामो अपि कोटिसन्थरेना ति। गहिनो अय्यपुत्त आरामो ति। न गहपति गहिनो आरामो ति। गहिनो न गहिनो ति वोहारिक्ये महामत्ते पुच्छिंसु । महामत्ता एवम् आउंसु यतो तया अय्यपुत्त अग्यो कतो गहिनो आरामो ति। The above has been translated in the Sacred Books of the East, XX. pp. 187-188, by Messrs. Rhys Davids and Oldenberg as follows:—"He went to Jeta the Kumāra, and "said to him, 'Sir, let me have your garden to make an Arama on it.' 'It is not, sir, for "sale, even for (a sum so great that the pieces of) money would be sufficient to cover it if "(they were) laid side by side.' 'I take, sir, the garden at the price.' 'No, O householder, "there was no bargain meant.' Then they asked the lords of justice whether a bargain of "sale had been made or not. And the lords decided thus: 'The Arama is taken, sir, at "the price which you fixed.'"