Note 859 — Chapter I · UNIVERSAL INVOCATION OF THE JUDGMENT OF GOD.

Institutes of Gautama, XIII. 1, 3, 23 (Bühler’s Translation).

So the Vasishtha Dharmasastra is equally ignorant of ordeals and even more immoral in its teaching—“Men may speak an untruth when their lives are in danger or the loss of their whole property is imminent”—Vasishtha XVI. 10, 35 (Bühler’s Translation).