ould the trees be growing where there are memorial erections,
or in places for disposal of the dead, or on boundary lines, or in
holy places, or in a temple, a double fine [shall be levied]; so, for
any famous tree.[318]

229. For cutting brushwood, grasses, shrubs, climbing plants,
ground-spreading creepers, annuals, and herbs, at the places above
mentioned, half of the fine is ordained.

230. Forcibly taking away [any thing, though it be] public property,
is _sahasa_;[319] the fine for it is double the value [of the
property]. [If the crime be,] on denial, [proved,] then, four times
the value.

231. He who instigates the commission of _sahasa_, shall pay a double
fine, and four-fold if he instigate by promise of reward.

232. He who rails at a venerable person,[320] or who disobeys such an
one, he who maltreats his brother's wife,[321] he who fails to give
that which he has promised, he who forces a dwelling-house with a seal
upon it,[322]

233. he who does harm to his neighbour, or to his kindred, and such
like[323]--each of these shall be fined fifty _panas_. So is it
enjoined.

234. He who, [on the impulse] of his own will [merely], goes to a
widow,[324] he who, when there is a cry for help, does not haste [to
render it], he who reviles without cause, a _chandala_[325] who
touches one of higher cast,

235. he who, when making an oblation to the gods or to ancestors,
feeds Sudras, or _pravrajikas_,[326] he who swears an improper
oath, or who does what he has no title to do,[327]

236. he who emasculates a bull or smaller animal, who embezzles common
property, who destroys the embryo of a female slave,

237. and, among fathers and sons, sisters and brothers, husbands and
wives, teachers and disciples, if either desert the other, [he or she]
not being an outcast--[in these several instances,] the fine is a
hundred _panas_.[328]

238. A washerman who wears another's dress shall be fined three
_panas_; if he sell, let out, pledge, or, when importuned [give it
away],[329] ten _panas._

239. If, when father and son quarrel, one volunteer to be a
witness,[330] the fine is three _panas_; but, if [on such an
occasion] one offer himself as surety,[331] he shall be fined
eight-fold.

240. Whoever falsifies scales, or a royal order, or a measure,[332] or
a coin,[333] likewise whoever [knowingly] uses them [so falsified],
shall be made to pay the highest fine.[334]

241. A tryer of coin who pronounces a false