174. If it be a single-hoofed animal, the owner shall pay four _paṇas_; if a man, five _paṇas_; if a buffalo, or a camel, or a cow, two _paṇas_; if a goat or a sheep, the fourth part of a _paṇa_.[269] 175.[270]Any property, other than women and children, may be given away, if it be no detriment to the family--but not the whole property, where there are children; nor any portion which has been already promised to another. 176. The acceptance [of a gift] should be public, especially of immovable property. Whatever may be lawfully given and is contracted to be given, shall not, after gift, be resumed. 177. The time given for trial [on purchase] of seed, is ten days;[271] of iron, one day; of beasts of burden, five days; of precious stones, seven days; of women,[272] one month; of milch-cows, three days; of men,[272] half a month. 178. By the action of fire, gold is not lessened in quantity: one hundred _palas_[273] of silver thereby lose two _palas_; of tin, one hundred _palas_ lose eight; lead and copper, out of one hundred _palas_, lose five; iron, of one hundred _palas_, loses ten.[274] 179. One hundred _palas_ of wool or cotton when worked[275] are increased by ten _palas_; if the thread be of middling fineness, the increase is five _palas_; if very fine, three _palas._ 180. In figured textures and in those made of hair, the loss is estimated at one thirtieth part. In a texture of silk or of the bark of trees, there is neither loss nor increase. 181. Whenever loss has been sustained, the artisan shall be imperatively required to pay what competent judges award, after they shall have investigated [circumstances, of] place, of time, of the mode of using [the material], and its quality of strength or lightness.[276] 182. One made a slave by compulsion, and one sold[277] [into slavery] by robbers, are [entitled to be] set free; so also is [a slave] who saves his master's life; also one who [having adopted servitude for a living,] abandons his claim to maintenance; also one enslaved who pays off what is due from him.[278] 183. One who, being a religious mendicant, forsakes that condition, shall be, until death, the monarch's slave. Slavery must be in the order of the casts, not inversely.[279] 184. Though an apprentice have attained a knowledge of his art,[280] he shall [nevertheless] remain in his master's house for the stipulated time, receiving from his master maintenance, and giving up to him his earnings.[281] 185. The monarch shall erect in the city a mansion and shall settle therein bráhmaṇs learned in the three Vedas, and endow them, giving them injunction to discharge their duties.[282] 186. They shall diligently practise all observances stipulated for[283] [in the endowment] which do not interfere with their personal duties, also whatever other observances the monarch may enjoin.[284]