Note 142 — LAW AND JUDICATURE.

i. e. if the regular and more appropriate witnesses are not available. (M.)

After sloka 69 the Calcutta edition has the following:—Those learned in the Vedas, ascetics, the aged, devotees, and the like, are incompetent witnesses, because so declared by law; no other ground [of incompetency] is assigned.

We do not insert this additional sloka for the reasons stated in note [79] supra.