Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c8.129

c8.129

In the poetical literature the Mṛcch. offers us a well-known instance of a deposit, the depositing of ornament (*alaṃkāraṇyāsa*); the ornament is then stolen and the depositary holds himself bound to make amends for it. In the Rājatar. 8,123 ff. a king famous for his accurate judgments uses a stratagem of the kind of tricks recommended in the Smṛtis in order to arrive at a clue in a case of embezzlement of a large sum which the owner had deposited with a merchant; the convincing proof of the faithlessness of the depositary (*nyāsadhārin*)