6 6 have recourfe to all juft expedients, united or separate: 6 215. Let him confider the business to be expedited, the expedients collectively, and ⚫ himself who must apply them; and, taking re fuge completely in those three, let him ftrenuously labour for his own prosperity. 216. HAVING Confulted with his minifters, in the manner before prefcribed, on all this mass of publick affairs; having used ex-, 'ercife becoming a warriour, and having bathed after it, let the king enter at noon his private apartments for the purpose of taking • food. 217. • There let him eat lawful aliment, prepared by fervants attached to his person, who know the difference of times and are incapable ' of perfidy, after it has been proved innocent by • certain experiments, and hallowed by texts of the Véda repulfive of poison. 6 218. Together with all his food let him fwallow fuch medical fubftances as refift venom; and let him conftantly wear with ' attention fuch gems, as are known to repel • it. 219. Let his females, well tried and attentive, their drefs and ornaments having been examined, left fome weapon fhould be concealed • in them, do him humble fervice with fans, wa 220. Thus let him take diligent care, when 'he goes out in a carriage or on horseback, when he lies down to reft, when he fits, when he takes food, when he bathes, anoints his body with odorous effences, and puts on all his 'habiliments. 221. After eating, let him divert himself with his women in the receffes of his palace; and, having idled a reasonable time, let him again 'think of publick affairs: 222, When he has dreffed himfelf completely, let him once more review his armed men, with all their elephants, horses, and cars, their accoutrements, and weapons. 223. At funfet, having performed his religi ous duty, let him privately, but well armed, in ⚫ his interior apartment, hear what has been done ' by his reporters and emiffaries: 224. Then, having difmiffed those informers, ' and returning to another fecret chamber, let him go, attended by women, to the inmost recess of his manfion for the fake of his evening meal; 225. 'There, having afecond time eaten a little, ⚫ and having been recreated with musical strains, * let him take reft early, and rise refreshed from • his labour. 226. THIS perfect fyftem of rules let a king, free from illness, obferve; but, when really afflicted with disease, he may intruft all thefe affairs to his officers.' CHAPTER THE EIGHTH. On Judicature; and. on Law, Private and 1. A KING, defirous of infpecting judi'cial proceedings, must enter his court of juftice, compofed and fedate in his demeanour, 'together with Bráhmens and counsellors, who 'know how to give him advice: 2. There, either fitting or ftanding, holding ⚫ forth his right arm, without oftentation in his ' dress and ornaments, let him examine the af'fairs of litigant parties. 3. Each day let him decide causes, one after another, under the eighteen principal titles of law, by arguments and rules drawn from local usages, and from written codes: 4. • Of those titles, the firft is debt, on loans 'for confumption; the fecond, depofits, and loans for ufe; the third, fale without owner fhip; the fourth, concerns among partners; the 'fifth, subtraction of what has been given; 5. The fixth, nonpayment of wages or hire; the feventh, nonperformance of agreements; the eighth, refciffion of fale and purchase; the ninth, disputes between master and servant; 6. The tenth, contests on boundaries; the eleventh and twelfth, affault and flander; the' thirteenth, larceny; the fourteenth, robbery and other violence; the fifteenth, adultery; 7. The fixteenth, altercation between man and wife, and their feveral duties; the feventeenth, the law of inheritance; the eighteenth, gaming with dice and with living creatures: 'these eighteen titles of law are settled as the groundwork of all judicial procedure in this • world. 8. Among men, who contend for the moft part on the titles just mentioned, and on a few mifcellaneous heads not comprised under them, • let the king decide causes justly, observing priC meval law; ; 9. 'But, when he cannot inspect such affairs ' in perfon, let him appoint, for the inspection of 6 them, a Brábmen of eminent learning: 10. Let that chief judge, accompanied by 'three affeffors, fully confider all caufes brought before the king, and having entered the courtroom, let him fit or ftand, but not move backwards and forwards. II. 'In whatever country three Brahmens, particularly fkilled in the three feveral Védas, |