BY THE ANCIENT HINDUS. 



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The Nitiprakasika coincides entirely with Maim, VII, 89, 

 and in the first half of the 90th sloka, but differs in the second 

 half of the 90th and the first half of the 91st sloka, and then 

 agrees again, but this difference in two lines is of the 

 greatest importance for our subject. 131 



Manu, VII. 

 89. Those rulers of the earth, 

 who desirous of defeating 

 each other, exert their utmost 

 strength in battle without 

 ever averting their faces, 

 ascend after death directly 

 to heaven. 



90. No one should strike 

 in a combat his enemy with 

 concealed weapons, nor with 

 barbed arrows, nor with poi- 

 soned arrows, nor with darts 

 kindled by fire. 



91. Nor should he kill a 

 person who is alighted on the 

 ground, nor one who is emascu- 

 lated, nor one who has joined 

 his hands as a supplicant, nor 

 one who sits with dishevelled 

 hair, nor one who says "lam 

 thine." 



Nitiprakasika, 

 44. The same. 



VII. 



45. No one should strike 

 in a combat his enemy with 

 concealed weapons, nor with 

 poisoned arrows, nor with ma- 

 chines kindled by fire (guns), nor 

 also with various stratagems. 



46. Nor should he kill a 

 person who has climbed on a 

 tree, nor one who is emas- 

 culated, nor one who has 

 joined his hands as a suppli- 

 cant, nor one who sits with 

 dishevelled hair, nor one who 

 says " I am thine." 



™See Manu, VII, 90, 91. 



90. Na kutairayudhairhanyat 

 yudhyamano rane ripun, na karnibhir 

 napi digdhair ndgnijvalitatejanaih. 



91. Na ca hanydt sthaldrudham na 

 klibam na krtanjalim, na mukta- 



kesam naslnam na tavasrmti vadinam. 



Nitiprakasika, VII. 45, 46. 



45. Na kutairayudhairhanyat 

 yudhyamano rane ripun, digdhair- 

 agnyujjvalaivy antra istan traisca i va 

 prthagvidhaih. 



46. Na hanydt vrksam arudham na 

 klibam na krtanjalim, na mukta- 

 kesam naslnam na tavasmiti vadinam. 



