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8.131. Those technical names of (certain quantities of) copper, silver, and gold, which are generally used on
earth for the purpose of business transactions among men, I will fully declare.
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8.132. The very small mote which is seen when the sun shines through a lattice, they declare (to be) the least of
(all) quantities and (to be called) a trasarenu (a floating particle of dust).
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8.133. Know (that) eight trasarenus (are equal) in bulk (to) a liksha (the egg of a louse), three of those to one
grain of black mustard (ragasarshapa), and three of the latter to a white mustard-seed.
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8.134. Six grains of white mustard are one middle-sized barley-corn, and three barley-corns one krishnala
(raktika, or gunga-berry); five krishnalas are one masha (bean), and sixteen of those one suvarna.
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8.135. Four suvarnas are one pala, and ten palas one dharana; two krishnalas (of silver), weighed together, must
be considered one mashaka of silver.
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8.136. Sixteen of those make a silver dharana, or purana; but know (that) a karsha of copper is a karshapana, or
pana.
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8.137. Know (that) ten dharanas of silver make one satamana; four suvarnas must be considered (equal) in
weight to a nishka.
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8.138. Two hundred and fifty panas are declared (to be) the first (or lowest) amercement, five (hundred) are
considered as the mean (or middlemost), but one thousand as the highest.
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8.139. A debt being admitted as due, (the defendant) shall pay five in the hundred (as a fine), if it be denied (and
proved) twice as much; that is the teaching of Manu.
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8.140. A money-lender may stipulate as an increase of his capital, for the interest, allowed by Vasishtha, and
take monthly the eightieth part of a hundred.
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