Manu Smriti - Hindu Online

8.241. (For damage) in other fields (each head of) cattle shall (pay a fine of one (pana) and a quarter, and in all
(cases the value of) the crop (destroyed) shall be made good to the owner of the field; that is the settled rule.
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8.242. But Manu has declared that no fine shall be paid for (damage done by) a cow within ten days after her
calving, by bulls and by cattle sacred to the gods, whether they are attended by a herdsman or not.
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8.243. If (the crops are destroyed by) the husbandman’s (own) fault, the fine shall amount to ten times as much
as (the king’s) share; but the fine (shall be) only half that amount if (the fault lay) with the servants and the
farmer had no knowledge of it.
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8.244. To these rules a righteous king shall keep in (all cases of) transgressions by masters, their cattle, and
herdsmen.
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8.245. If a dispute has arisen between two villages concerning a boundary, the king shall settle the limits in the
month of Gyaishtha, when the landmarks are most distinctly visible.
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8.246. Let him mark the boundaries (by) trees, (e.g.) Nyagrodhas, Asvatthas, Kimsukas, cotton-trees, Salas,
Palmyra palms, and trees with milky juice,
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8.247. By clustering shrubs, bamboos of different kinds, Samis, creepers and raised mounds, reeds, thickets of
Kubgaka; thus the boundary will not be forgotten.
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8.248. Tanks, wells, cisterns, and fountains should be built where boundaries meet, as well as temples,
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8.249. And as he will see that through men’s ignorance of the boundaries trespasses constantly occur in the
world, let him cause to be made other hidden marks for boundaries,
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8.250. Stones, bones, cow’s hair, chaff, ashes, potsherds, dry cowdung, bricks, cinders, pebbles, and sand,
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8.251. And whatever other things of a similar kind the earth does not corrode even after a long time, those he
should cause to be buried where one boundary joins (the other).