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200 VYAVAHĀRAMAYŪKHA [ B. V 1. 5-7
M. p.103 l.31-p.104 l. 21
Ākṣika ( in Nārada ) means relating to playing with dice , avira-
kṣitaḥ means not specially agreed upon Yājñavalkya ( II 44 ) says ;
If ( a creditor ) does not receive back his own money given as a
loan when it is tendered ( by the debtor ) it carries no interest from
that ( day ) if it be deposited with a third person '
Bṛhaspati ( p 322 v 13 ) says
On gold ( and silver ) the interest ( allowed by śāstra ) is as much
as ( to make the debt ) double, on clothes and the baser metals treble
on grain, quadruple so also on vegetable products beasts of burden
and wool ( or hair ).
Śadaḥ ( in Bṛhaspati ) means flowers roots fruits and the
like vāhyaḥ means bullocks and the like Lavaḥ means the wool
of sheep and hair of camari deer and the like. *As to what Manu
( VIII 151 ) says interest on grain vegetable products, beasts of
burden and on hair does not exceed five times ( the principal ) its purport
is to prohibit taking six times as much ( as the principal ) or more ¹
Kātyāyana says
The interest stops at double ( the principal ) in the case of jewels,
pearls, corals gold and silver and in the case of fruits silken cloth
and wool.
Kaiṭam ( in Kāt ) means produced from a kīṭa ( insect ) such as
the cloth called paṭṭa, a dukūla and tasari ( which are several varieties of
silk cloth ) Vasiṣṭha says
Interest on copper iron bell metal, brass, tin and lead is threefold if the
debt be of long standing
Vyāsa says
( Maximum ) interest in the case of vegetables cotton and seeds is
declared to be six fold '
Kātyāyana says
For all sorts of oils for liquors and ghee the ( maximum recoverable
with ) interest should be known as eightfold and also in the case of raw
sugar and salt
Viṣṇu ( Dh. S. VI 11 15 ) says In the case of gold ( the maximum
recoverable with ) interest is two-fold on cloth treble on grain quadruple
on fluids eight fold in the case of female slaves and beasts the offspring ( is
the interest ) ² Flowers roots and fruits and what is sold by ( being
weighed in a ) balance—in these ( the increase by interest ) is eight-fold
( these are Vasiṣṭha II 46 17 ). Nārada ( p. 67 10 ) says
1 Compare Gautama XII.33 with Manu VIII 151 Yāj II.39 agrees with Bṛhaspati
For various explanations of the text of Manu vide notes to V M p 517
2 It is possible to take striṣu paśu to mean female beasts (such as a she-
buffalo).
P. 170 (text).