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56. (The archer) is blameable if the arrows dis- charged by him fall short of or go beyond the target. (The person accused) obtains acquittal if his body continues immersed in water after the middling arrow has been (discharged and) brought back.

54. Nepalese Narada. krfira»? dhanu^ saptajataw natikrfiraz^i tu sha/jatam 1 manda/?^ pa«/^ajataw ^77eyam esha prokto dhanurvidhi-^ II Nearly identical with Minor Narada I, 7, 4 (p. 50); Narada I, 22, 307 (above, p. 112); Viram. p. 268, &c. The translation of this text is based on the interpretation given in Tod. ' That bow which bends sufficiently to admit of discharging an arrow from it, when a weight of seven hundred Palas is fastened by the string, is said to have seven hundred. The terms " six hundred " and " five hundred" have to be understood in the same way.' See too, above, p. 112, 307 note.

55. 56 a. M. Macn. X, 4, 15. ' The rule regarding the distance of the target, which renders the arrows entirely superfluous, seems to belong to a more recent period than the other rules. See Prof. Stenzler's Essay on Indian Ordeals.

56b. Tod. anite madhyame va«e magnahga^ ju^itam iydt I