Manu Smriti - Hindu Online

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8.231. A hired herdsman who is paid with milk, may milk with the consent of the owner the best (cow) out of
ten; such shall be his hire if no (other) wages (are paid).
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8.232. The herdsman alone shall make good (the loss of a beast) strayed, destroyed by worms, killed by dogs or
(by falling) into a pit, if he did not duly exert himself (to prevent it).
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8.233. But for (an animal) stolen by thieves, though he raised an alarm, the herdsman shall not pay, provided he
gives notice to his master at the proper place and time.
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8.234. If cattle die, let him carry to his master their ears, skin, tails, bladders, tendons, and the yellow concrete
bile, and let him point out their particular. marks.
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8.235. But if goats or sheep are surrounded by wolves and the herdsman does not hasten (to their assistance), lie
shall be responsible for any (animal) which a wolf may attack and kill.
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8.236. But if they, kept in (proper) order, graze together in the forest, and a wolf, suddenly jumping on one of
them, kills it, the herdsman shall bear in that case no responsibility.
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8.237. On all sides of a village a space, one hundred dhanus or three samya-throws (in breadth), shall be
reserved (for pasture), and thrice (that space) round a town.
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8.238. If the cattle do damage to unfenced crops on that (common), the king shall in that case not punish the
herdsmen.
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8.239. (The owner of the field) shall make there a hedge over which a camel cannot look, and stop every gap
through which a dog or a boar can thrust his head.
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8.240. (If cattle do mischief) in an enclosed field near a highway or near a village, the herdsman shall be fined
one hundred (panas); (but cattle), unattended by a herdsman, (the watchman in the field) shall drive away.
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