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172. A destroyer of landmarks shall be compelled to pay the highest amercement and to mark the boundary anew with landmarks.
173. He who (knowingly) eats forbidden food effecting loss of caste shall be banished.
174. He who sells forbidden food (such as spirituous liquor and the like), or food which must not be sold, and he who breaks an image of a deity, shall pay the highest amercement;
175. Also, a physician who adopts a wrong method of cure in the case of a patient of high rank (such as a relative of the king's);
176. The second amercement in the case of another patient;
177. The lowest amercement in the case of an animal.
178. He who does not give what he has promised, shall be compelled to give it and to pay the first amercement.
179. To a false witness his entire property shall be confiscated.
180. (The same punishment is ordained) for a judge who lives by bribes.
181. He who has mortgaged more than a bull's hide of land to one creditor, and without having redeemed it mortgages it to another, shall be corporally punished (by whipping or imprisonment).
[171. According to Nand., the particle ka indicates that those who state the nature or amount of a deposit wrongly ate also intended here.
173. Thus according to Nand., who says expressly that the causative form cannot here mean causing to eat, because the punishment for the latter offence has been mentioned in Sūtra 98.]
182. If the quantity be less, he shall pay a fine of sixteen Suvarnas.
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