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10.111. The guilt incurred by offering sacrifices for teaching (unworthy men) is removed by muttering (sacred
texts) and by burnt offerings, but that incurred by accepting gifts (from them) by throwing (the gifts) away and
by austerities.
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10.112. A Brahmana who is unable to maintain himself, should (rather) glean ears or grains from (the field of)
any (man); gleaning ears is better than accepting gifts, picking up single grains is declared to be still more
laudable.
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10.113. If Brahmanas, who are Snatakas, are pining with hunger, or in want of (utensils made of) common
metals, or of other property, they may ask the king for them; if he is not disposed to be liberal, he must be left.
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10.114. (The acceptance on an untilled field is less blamable than (that of) a tilled one; (with respect to) cows,
goats, sheep, gold, grain, and cooked food, (the acceptance of) each earlier-named (article is less blamable than
of the following ones).
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10.115. There are seven lawful modes of acquiring property, (viz.) inheritance, finding or friendly donation,
purchase, conquest, lending at interest, the performance of work, and the acceptance of gifts from virtuous men.
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10.116. Learning, mechanical arts, work for wages, service, rearing cattle, traffic, agriculture, contentment (with
little), alms, and receiving interest on money, are the ten modes of subsistence (permitted to all men in times of
distress).
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10.117. Neither a Brahmana, nor a Kshatriya must lend (money at) interest; but at his pleasure (either of them)
may, in times of distress when he requires money) for sacred purposes, lend to a very sinful man at a small
interest.
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10.118. A Kshatriya (king) who, in times of distress, takes even the fourth part (of the crops), is free from guilt,
if he protects his subjects to the best of his ability.
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10.119. His peculiar duty is conquest, and he must not turn back in danger; having protected the Vaisyas by his
weapons, he may cause the legal tax to be collected;