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Book 2 Chapter IX Paragraph 19

Wikisource / R. Shamasastry (1915) · Book 2 - The Duties of Government Superintendents / Chapter IX · Verse Paragraph 19

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Whoever is niggardly in spite of his immense property, hordes, deposits, or sends out—hordes in his own house, deposits with citizens or country people or sends out to foreign countries;—a spy shall find out the advisers, friends, servants, relations, partisans, as well as the income and expenditure of such a niggardly person. Whoever in a foreign country carries out the work of such a niggardly person shall be prevailed upon to give out the secret. When the secret is known, the niggardly person shall be murdered apparently under the orders of (his) avowed enemy.