Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c8.42

c8.42

Secret boundary marks are stones, bones, charcoal, potsherd, sand, ash, dried cow-dung and other objects not easily destroyed by earth which are filled in pots and buried in the ground on the boundary line for which reason such a boundary is called boundary of buried things (*naidhāni sīmā*). The secret marks should be shown particularly to the children and the latter, when they grow up to be men should show them again to their children, and thus the knowledge of the boundary is propagated from generation to generation (Bṛh. 19, 6 f.). Severe corporeal punishments and fines (Vi. 5, 172; M. 9, 291; Y. 2, 155) are prescribed for shifting a boundary as well as for encroaching on an adjoining field, as for instance, if a man violates the boundary when driving the plough and goes beyond it.