Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c8.217

c8.217

According to these sources primarily a distinction is to be made between royal and private documents (*rājakīyam* and *laukikam* or *jānapadam* *lekhyam*). The private documents are divided into documents of partition, gift, purchase, pledge, combination, slavery, boundary, truce, cession and debt (*pattra* or *lekhya* for *vibhāga*, *dāna*, *kārya*, *ādhi*, *saṃvit*, *dāsa*, *sīmā*, *saṃdhi*, *anvādhi*, *ṛṇa*) : a receipt (*viśuddhi-pattra*) may be given even for a penance which has been performed.