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Part One<br />
to any kind of excuse, give to the one who<br />
duly responds to this challenge the possession<br />
and the right to make use of my<br />
property worth ten thousand rupees, provided<br />
that three judges, acceptable to both<br />
parties, unanimously give the verdict that<br />
the conditions [laid down for the contest]<br />
have been duly met. Let it be clear,<br />
however, that if he is unable to advance<br />
rational arguments from his own scripture,<br />
or if he, in accordance with the conditions<br />
laid down in the announcement,<br />
fails to put forward even one fifth of the<br />
arguments, he will have to make a written<br />
submission, in clear and unequivocal<br />
terms, that the inadequacy and irrationality<br />
of his scripture has rendered him incapable<br />
of fulfilling this clause. If, however,<br />
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