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11.10. If (a man) does anything for the sake of his happiness in another world, to the detriment of those whom
he is bound to maintain, that produces evil results for him, both while he lives and when he is dead.
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11.11. If a sacrifice, (offered) by (any twice-born) sacrificer, (and) especially by a Brahmana, must remain
incomplete through (the want of) one requisite, while a righteous king rules,
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11.12. That article (required) for the completion of the sacrifice, may be taken (forcibly) from the house of any
Vaisya, who possesses a large number of cattle, (but) neither performs the (minor) sacrifices nor drinks the
Soma-juice;
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11.13. (Or) the (sacrificer) may take at his pleasure two or three (articles required for a sacrifice) from the house
of a Sudra; for a Sudra has no business with sacrifices.
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11.14. If (a man) possessing one hundred cows, kindles not the sacred fire, or one possessing a thousand cows,
drinks not the Soma-juice, a (sacrificer) may unhesitatingly take (what he requires) from the houses of those
two, even (though they be Brahmanas or Kshatriyas);
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11.15. (Or) he may take (it by force or fraud) from one who always takes and never gives, and who refuses to
give it; thus the fame (of the taker) will spread and his merit increase.
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11.16. Likewise he who has not eaten at (the time of) six meals, may take at (the time of) the seventh meal
(food) from a man who neglects his sacred duties, without (however) making a provision for the morrow,
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11.17. Either from the threshing-floor, or from a field, or out of the house, or wherever he finds it; but if (the
owner) asks him, he must confess to him that (deed and its cause).
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11.18. (On such occasions) a Kshatriya must never take the property of a (virtuous Brahmana; but he who is
starving may appropriate the possessions of a Dasyu, or of one who neglects his sacred duties.
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11.19. He who takes property from the wicked and bestows it on the virtuous, transforms himself into a boat,
and carries both (over the sea of misfortune).