6. _Never to leave one’s tribe (cast)._--This the Indians consider as one of the greatest crimes they can commit. A _Giadibrshda_, that is, a man unfaithful to his cast, is exposed to the greatest persecution from all the members of it, and never is left at peace till he again unites himself to it. On his re-admission he is obliged to drink the so called _Panciadevya_, a peculiar kind of beverage, which consists of cream, sour milk, liquid butter, cow’s hair, and cow-dung dissolved in cow’s urine. By this, however, he is not fully freed from his sin, but must spend a whole month in a sequestered hut; and that he may have no pretence for leaving it, the necessary food is carried to him daily till the time of his penance and purification is expired. At _Tiruvandaburam_ I once saw a woman, of the cast of the _Shudras_, who was subjected to this kind of life. It may be readily perceived, that the object of this regulation is to prevent the Pagans from embracing any other religion than their own, and to preserve the respectability of the cast. 7. _To destroy no public edifice or construction._--Under these are understood temples, the ponds in which the Indians perform their ablutions, royal palaces, and, in particular, the _madam_, _ambalam_, or inns erected on the public roads for the accommodation of strangers, and which I have before described. It deserves here to be remarked, that people pay nothing for the good entertainment which they there receive. In these inns those philosophers known under the names of _Yogui_ and _Gosuami_, and by some called very improperly _Fakirs_, who subject themselves to the severest penances, are treated at the king’s expence, though this is done sometimes in some neighbouring temple. They eat nothing but rice, fruits, and herbs. 8. _To adulterate neither gold nor silver, nor any kind of coin._ 9. _Not to be a tyrant or despot, or a cruel and unmerciful tormentor of mankind._--This law, introduced by the ancient philosophers and magi, was the strongest support of monarchical government, and ensured duration to the different states of India; but as soon as the princes who ruled over _Carnate_, _Maïssur_, _Madura_ and _Concao_ began to abuse their power, and to suffer their ministers to oppress their subjects, that unwise conduct gave the first occasion to revolutions. Hence it happened that these people, who had been long tired of the galling yoke of their sovereigns, though they did not wish to rise up in rebellion against them, received with open arms the foreign conquerors who entered the country; and by these means their imprudent rulers lost their thrones, and at the same time all their influence.