63. Or it may remain where it was, without interest [on the debt], the value at that date [of the thing pledged] being ascertained. If the debtor fail to come, the creditor may sell [the pledge] before witnesses. 64. If the debt secured by pledge have become doubled, the pledge shall be released; provided, the [value of the] usufruct of the thing pledged be double [the amount of] the loan.[130] 65. _Upanidhi_ is something in a box delivered to the hands of another, without a declaration. This shall be restored in the same manner [as it was given].[131] 66. But one shall not be compelled to make good that of which he has been deprived by the monarch, by accident, or by thieves.[132] When the loss occurs after demand has been made, and the deposit not returned, the depositee is to make it good and to pay a fine of equal value. 67. Whoever of his own accord uses [this description of deposit] shall be fined, and must restore it, together with the profit made. The same rule applies to things borrowed[133] [for a special occasion], also to what is delivered for the purpose of being restored to the owner,[134] also to what is deposited [in the absence of the head, with the other members of the family],[135] also to the deposits called _nikshepa_,[136] and the like.[137] 68. Those proper to be witnesses are, religious devotees,[138] they who bestow liberally, the wellborn, they who speak truth, they whose chief aim it is to be virtuous,[139] they who are strait in their conduct, they who have sons, and the wealthy.[140] 69. There should be at least three witnesses, such as observe the rites prescribed by the Śruti and the Smriti, and are of a class, whether mixed or unmixed,[141] corresponding [with that of the person who produces them]: otherwise,[142] any person may be a witness for any person. 70. Women, minors, aged men,[143] gamblers, persons intoxicated, madmen,[144] persons under suspicion of crime, stageplayers, infidels,[145] forgers, persons who are deprived of any sense, 71. heinous offenders,[146] intimate friends,[147] parties interested [in the suit], confederates, enemies [to either party], thieves, violent characters, the openly wicked,[148] persons cast off [by their friends and kin], and such like,[149] are inadmissible as witnesses. 72. Even one person,[150] being an intelligent follower of ritual duties,[151] may, with the consent of both parties, be witness [sufficient]. All are admissible[152] as witnesses in cases of rape, theft[153] defamation and personal trespass.[154] 73. The judge shall thus address the witnesses, as they come up to the plaintiff and defendant: The worlds appointed for criminals, for atrocious criminals;[155] 74. the worlds appointed for incendiaries, for murderers of women and children--all these shall be the portion of him who gives false testimony! 75. Know, that whatever good has been done by thee in a hundred former births, all shall become his whom thou defeatest by falsehood![156]