Republics in Ancient India, c. 1500 B.C.–500 B.C. c7.367

c7.367

11. Unto truth, unto penance, and unto the deities, we deliver
this deposit [*nidhi*], [the] treasure; let it not be lost
in our playing dice, or in the assembly [*samiti*];
do not release it to another in preference to me.²
What [untruth] thou shalt speak at the dice, . . . in the
assembly [*samityām*], or what untruth . . . from desire
of gain,—clothing thyself in the web of authority
[*kṣatra-tantu*], ye shall settle in it all pollutions.³