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29. With red perfumes and garlands, as well as with curds, cakes of flour, fried grain and other (offerings, the judge) should first worship the balance, and then show honour to the others.

tu\a,m kashMamayiw T2ig2i jikyaprantavalambinim II dakshi/^ottara- sa»2Sthanav ubhav ekatrasa;?zyatau i stambhau kr/tva same de^e tayo^ saz^zsthapayet tulam 11 ayasena tu pa^ena madhye sawgr^'hya dharmavit I yq^ayet tarn sus2Lmyukta.m tulaw pragaparayatam II

27, 28. May. p. 20 (text); M. Macn. X, 2, 6 (uncertain). These two texts are elsewhere attributed to Pitamaha, and this is probably the correct view, as the fastening of the two perpendiculars by the two arches in which the balance moves up and down is described in another text of Pitamaha.

29. M. Macn. X, 2, 17. 'The injunction contained in this text concerns a judge who is about to administer the ordeal by balance to one arraigned in a cause. The others/ i.e. Indra and the other deities. Viram. p. 251. See 19.