one to be genuine or a
genuine one to be false, shall be made to pay the highest fine.

242. One who falsely sets himself up as a physician,[335] shall, [for
his malpractice,] if brutes be concerned, pay the first fine--if
mankind, the middle fine--but, if royal officers, the highest fine.

243. Whoso imprisons one not deserving of imprisonment,[336] or
releases one found worthy of imprisonment or pending his trial,[337]
shall pay the highest fine.

244. He who, in measurement, or [use of] the scales, defrauds [to the
extent] of an eighth, shall be made to pay a fine of two hundred
_panas_, and thus proportionably for a more or less quantity.

245. He who adulterates[338] medicine, or oily commodities, or salt,
or perfumes, or corn, or sugar, or other saleable articles, shall be
fined sixteen _panas._

246. For making one sort of article to appear to be of another sort,
whether it be earthen goods, or skins, or precious stones, or threads,
or corn, or wood, or bark of trees, or clothes, a fine [is ordained
of] eight-fold the purchase money.

247. For him who changes a covered basket,[339] or who gives in pledge
or sells counterfeit drugs in a wrapper,[340] the fines prescribed
are,

248. where [the value is] below a _pana_ fifty _panas_, where
[it amounts to] a _pana_ one hundred _panas_, where to two
_panas_ two hundred _panas_: with increase of value the fine
increases.

249. The highest fine is imposed on those who, [although] aware of the
rise or fall in prices, combine, to the prejudice of labourers and
artists, to create a price [of their own].

250. For traders who combine, by [arbitrarily fixing] an improper
price, to impede [the traffic in] any commodity, or to make [an
injurious] sale of it,[341] the highest fine is ordained.

251. The price in [transactions of] sale and purchase, daily, is
regulated by the monarch;[342] the difference[343] is declared to be
the traders' profit.

252. On goods of his own country let a trader clear a profit of five
per cent., and ten per cent. on those of another country; provided he
make prompt sale of his purchase.

253. [The monarch] is to determine the price, in unison with the
wishes of both purchaser and seller; first adding to the cost of the
article the expense of bringing it to the market.[344]

254. He who, having received the price of any commodity, fails to
deliver it to the buyer, shall be compelled to deliver the article,
together with damages [f