व्यवहारमयूख (नीलकण्ठ भट्ट - पश्चिमी भारत की हिन्दू न्याय-संहिता एवं व्यवहार कोष)

S XXII 1 ] MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS 275
M p 156 ll 24 39 ]
The fine that has been obtained by a king unjustly should be offered
by him to Varuṇa making it thirty times as much and should be distribut-
ed by himself among brāhmaṇas ¹
The meaning is let him first mentally offer thirty times as much to
Varuṇa and then let him give the money to brāhmaṇas.
Thus ends ( the section on ) miscellaneous matters
In the madhyadeśa (middle regions of India) famous for meritorious
actions and situated in the vicinity of the auspicious confluence of the Carman-
vatī (Chambal) with the Yamunā, stands the famous city of Bhareha, where
rules the king Bhagavantadeva who is devoted to the lotus-eyed god (Viṣṇu)
Thus ends the Vyavahāramayūkha (ray of judicial matters) in the (work)
Bhagavadbhāskara composed by bhaṭṭa Nīlakaṇṭha, who was com-
manded by Bhagvantadeva, the lord of kings, an ornament of the
Saṅgara race, (Nīlakaṇṭha) who was the son of bhaṭṭa Śaṅkara,
the head jewel of paṇḍitas, and the leader among those
who had crossed beyond the ocean of the Mīmāṁsā
system and the son of the learned bhaṭṭa
Nārāyaṇa styled jagad-guru
1 Manu (IX 244-245) gives the reason of this procedure Varuṇa is the divine
lord of punishment who rules over kings and a brāhmaṇa who has fully mastered the Vedas
is lord of the world Varuṇa is styled 'rājan' in the Ṛgveda and is regarded as noting the
good and evil deeds of men Vide Ṛgveda VII 49 3