Local Government in Ancient India c9.7

c9.7

² Kātyāyana fixes a penalty for employing an apprentice in other work: ‘He who does not instruct his scholar in the art, and causes him to perform other work shall incur the first amercement; and the pupil may forsake him and go to another teacher, released from this indenture.’ (Colebrooke’s *Digest of Hindu Law*, vol. II, p. 7).