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No tree with fruit or blossoms can be cut down, as the sloka threatens the cutter with destruction of his family and wealth.

The Dhammapada is a part of the Khuddaka Nikāya of the Buddhistic Canon and consists of about 420 stanzas in the sloka metre.

The &c. refers to the other exceptions in sloka 25.

As to the guru and áchárya, the following is the 34th sloka of Yájnavalkya's first book:—He is a man's guru, who, after going through the ritual, imparts to him the Veda: he is áchárya, who invests with the sacred cord and then imparts the Veda.

The Commentator excludes from the operation of the harsh rule in this 20th sloka, an heir, who is supposed to deny his ancestor's debt or liability through ignorance; but he attempts to justify the rule itself by experience of human conduct.