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5. The law-books contain many utterances of the sages, which are obscure and difficult to make out. Therefore slow-minded persons, who are unable to understand them, and to refer their contents to each case in hand, must not be appointed. Well- descended persons shall be appointed, because they will avoid partiality from family pride. * Veracious ' persons have a natural abhorrence against untruthfulness. A. Ya^Tiavalkya II, 2.