History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.751

v4.c63.751

⁸¹⁸ भृत्या तुष्ट्या पण्यमूल्यं धीशुल्कमपकारिणे । श्रद्धाऽनुग्रहणं प्रीत्या दत्तमष्टविधं विदुः ॥ बृह. q. by स्मृतिच. II. p. 193. कात्यायन 644-645 explain भृति and प्रत्युपकार occurring in नारद and बृह., the first being a reward for finding out a lost article or an unknown offender and the second being a reward for protecting a man from danger or for guarding the donor's property when he was a minor or effecting some object desired by the donor (such as his marriage &c.)