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+ <CENTER><H1>CHAPTER XII.</H1></CENTER>
+ <P>1. 'O sinless One, the whole sacred law, (applicable) to the four castes, has been declared by thee; communicate to us (now), according to the truth, the ultimate retribution for (their) deeds.'</P>
+ <P>2. To the great sages (who addressed him thus) righteous Bhrigu, sprung from Manu, answered, 'Hear the decision concerning this whole connexion with actions.'</P>
+ <P>3. Action, which springs from the mind, from speech, and from the body, produces either good or evil results; by action are caused the (various) conditions of men, the highest, the middling, and the lowest.</P>
+ <P>4. Know that the mind is the instigator here below, even to that (action) which is connected with the body, (and) which is of three kinds, has three locations, and falls under ten heads.</P>
+ <P>5. Coveting the property of others, thinking in one's heart of what is undesirable, and adherence to false (doctrines), are the three kinds of (sinful) mental action.</P>
+ <P>6. Abusing (others, speaking) untruth, detracting from the merits of all men, and talking idly, shall be the four kinds of (evil) verbal action.</P>
+ <P>7. Taking what has not been given, injuring (creatures) without the sanction of the law, and holding criminal intercourse with another man's wife, are declared to be the three kinds of (wicked) bodily action.</P>
+ <P>8. (A man) obtains (the result of) a good or evil mental (act) in his mind, (that of) a verbal (act) in his speech, (that of) a bodily (act) in his body.</P>
+ <P>9. In consequence of (many) sinful acts committed with his body, a man becomes (in the next birth) something inanimate, in consequence (of sins) committed by speech, a bird, or a beast, and in consequence of mental (sins he is re-born in) a low caste.</P>
+ <P>10. That man is called a (true) tridandin in whose mind these three, the control over his speech (vagdanda), the control over his thoughts (manodanda), and the control over his body (kayadanda), are firmly fixed.</P>
+ <P>11. That man who keeps this threefold control (over himself) with respect to all created beings and wholly subdues desire and wrath, thereby assuredly gains complete success.</P>
+ <P>12. Him who impels this (corporeal) Self to action, they call the Kshetragna (the knower of the field); but him who does the acts, the wise name the Bhutatman (the Self consisting of the elements).</P>
+ <P>13. Another internal Self that is generated with all embodied (Kshetragnas) is called Giva, through which (the Kshetragna) becomes sensible of all pleasure and pain in (successive) births.</P>
+ <P>14. These two, the Great One and the Kshetragna, who are closely united with the elements, pervade him who resides in the multiform created beings.</P>
+ <P>15. From his body innumerable forms go forth, which constantly impel the multiform creatures to action.</P>
+ <P>16. Another strong body, formed of particles (of the) five (elements and) destined to suffer the torments (in hell), is produced after death (in the case) of wicked men.</P>
+ <P>17. When (the evil-doers) by means of that body have suffered there the torments imposed by Yama, (its constituent parts) are united, each according to its class, with those very elements (from which they were taken).</P>
+ <P>18. He, having suffered for his faults, which are produced by attachment to sensual objects, and which result in misery, approaches, free from stains, those two mighty ones.</P>
+ <P>19. Those two together examine without tiring the merit and the guilt of that (individual soul), united with which it obtains bliss or misery both in this world and the next.</P>
+ <P>20. If (the soul) chiefly practises virtue and vice to a small degree, it obtains bliss in heaven, clothed with those very elements.</P>
+ <P>21. But if it chiefly cleaves to vice and to virtue in a small degree, it suffers, deserted by the elements, the torments inflicted by Yama.</P>
+ <P>22. The individual soul, having endured those torments of Yama, again enters, free from taint, those very five elements, each in due proportion.</P>
+ <P>23. Let (man), having recognised even by means of his intellect these transitions of the individual soul (which depend) on merit and demerit, always fix his heart on (the acquisition of) merit.</P>
+ <P>24. Know Goodness (sattva), Activity (ragas), and Darkness (tamas) to be the three qualities of the Self, with which the Great One always completely pervades all existences.</P>
+ <P>25. When one of these qualities wholly predominates in a body, then it makes the embodied (soul) eminently distinguished for that quality.</P>
+ <P>26. Goodness is declared (to have the form of) knowledge, Darkness (of) ignorance, Activity (of) love and hatred; such is the nature of these (three) which is (all-) pervading and clings to everything created.</P>
+ <P>27. When (man) experiences in his soul a (feeling) full of bliss, a deep calm, as it were, and a pure light, then let him know (that it is) among those three (the quality called) Goodness.</P>
+ <P>28. What is mixed with pain and does not give satisfaction to the soul one may know (to be the quality of) Activity, which is difficult to conquer, and which ever draws embodied (souls towards sensual objects).</P>
+ <P>29. What is coupled with delusion, what has the character of an undiscernible mass, what cannot be fathomed by reasoning, what cannot be fully known, one must consider (as the quality of) Darkness.</P>
+ <P>30. I will, moreover, fully describe the results which arise from these three qualities, the excellent ones, the middling ones, and the lowest.</P>
+ <P>31. The study of the Vedas, austerity, (the pursuit of) knowledge, purity, control over the organs, the performance of meritorious acts and meditation on the Soul, (are) the marks of the quality of Goodness.</P>
+ <P>32. Delighting in undertakings, want of firmness, commission of sinful acts, and continual indulgence in sensual pleasures, (are) the marks of the quality of Activity.</P>
+ <P>33. Covetousness, sleepiness, pusillanimity, cruelty, atheism, leading an evil life, a habit of soliciting favours, and inattentiveness, are the marks of the quality of Darkness.</P>
+ <P>34. Know, moreover, the following to be a brief description of the three qualities, each in its order, as they appear in the three (times, the present, past, and future).</P>
+ <P>35. When a (man), having done, doing, or being about to do any act, feels ashamed, the learned may know that all (such acts bear) the mark of the quality of Darkness.</P>
+ <P>36. But, when (a man) desires (to gain) by an act much fame in this world and feels no sorrow on failing, know that it (bears the mark of the quality of) Activity.</P>
+ <P>37. But that (bears) the mark of the quality of Goodness which with his whole (heart) he desires to know, which he is not ashamed to perform, and at which his soul rejoices.</P>
+ <P>38. The craving after sensual pleasures is declared to be the mark of Darkness, (the pursuit of) wealth (the mark) of Activity, (the desire to gain) spiritual merit the mark of Goodness; each later) named quality is) better than the preceding one.</P>
+ <P>39. I will briefly declare in due order what transmigrations in this whole (world a man) obtains through each of these qualities.</P>
+ <P>40. Those endowed with Goodness reach the state of gods, those endowed with Activity the state of men, and those endowed with Darkness ever sink to the condition of beasts; that is the threefold course of transmigrations.</P>
+ <P>41. But know this threefold course of transmigrations that depends on the (three) qualities (to be again) threefold, low, middling, and high, according to the particular nature of the acts and of the knowledge (of each man).</P>
+ <P>42. Immovable (beings), insects, both small and great, fishes, snakes, and tortoises, cattle and wild animals, are the lowest conditions to which (the quality of) Darkness leads.</P>
+ <P>43. Elephants, horses, Sudras, and despicable barbarians, lions, tigers, and boars (are) the middling states, caused by (the quality of) Darkness.</P>
+ <P>44. Karanas, Suparnas and hypocrites, Rakshasas and Pisakas (belong to) the highest (rank of) conditions among those produced by Darkness.</P>
+ <P>45. Ghallas, Mallas, Natas, men who subsist by despicable occupations and those addicted to gambling and drinking (form) the lowest (order of) conditions caused by Activity.</P>
+ <P>46. Kings and Kshatriyas, the domestic priests of kings, and those who delight in the warfare of disputations (constitute) the middling (rank of the) states caused by Activity.</P>
+ <P>47. The Gandharvas, the Guhyakas, and the servants of the gods, likewise the Apsarases, (belong all to) the highest (rank of) conditions produced by Activity.</P>
+ <P>48. Hermits, ascetics, Brahmanas, the crowds of the Vaimanika deities, the lunar mansions, and the Daityas (form) the first (and lowest rank of the) existences caused by Goodness.</P>
+ <P>49. Sacrificers, the sages, the gods, the Vedas, the heavenly lights, the years, the manes, and the Sadhyas (constitute) the second order of existences, caused by Goodness.</P>
+ <P>50. The sages declare Brahma, the creators of the universe, the law, the Great One, and the Undiscernible One (to constitute) the highest order of beings produced by Goodness.</P>
+ <P>51. Thus (the result) of the threefold action, the whole system of transmigrations which (consists) of three classes, (each) with three subdivisions, and which includes all created beings, has been fully pointed out.</P>
+ <P>52. In consequence of attachment to (the objects of) the senses, and in consequence of the non-performance of their duties, fools, the lowest of men, reach the vilest births.</P>
+ <P>53. What wombs this individual soul enters in this world and in consequence of what actions, learn the particulars of that at large and in due order.</P>
+ <P>54. Those who committed mortal sins (mahapataka), having passed during large numbers of years through dreadful hells, obtain, after the expiration of (that term of punishment), the following births.</P>
+ <P>55. The slayer of a Brahmana enters the womb of a dog, a pig, an ass, a camel, a cow, a goat, a sheep, a deer, a bird, a Kandala, and a Pukkasa.</P>
+ <P>56. A Brahmana who drinks (the spirituous liquor called) Sura shall enter (the bodies) of small and large insects, of moths, of birds, feeding on ordure, and of destructive beasts.</P>
+ <P>57. A Brahmana who steals (the gold of a Brahmana shall pass) a thousand times (through the bodies) of spiders, snakes and lizards, of aquatic animals and of destructive Pisakas.</P>
+ <P>58. The violator of a Guru's bed (enters) a hundred times (the forms) of grasses, shrubs, and creepers, likewise of carnivorous (animals) and of (beasts) with fangs and of those doing cruel deeds.</P>
+ <P>59. Men who delight in doing hurt (become) carnivorous (animals); those who eat forbidden food, worms; thieves, creatures consuming their own kind; those who have intercourse with women of the lowest castes, Pretas.</P>
+ <P>60. He who has associated with outcasts, he who has approached the wives of other men, and he who has stolen the property of a Brahmana become Brahmarakshasas.</P>
+ <P>61. A man who out of greed has stolen gems, pearls or coral, or any of the many other kinds of precious things, is born among the goldsmiths.</P>
+ <P>62. For stealing grain (a man) becomes a rat, for stealing yellow metal a Hamsa, for stealing water a Plava, for stealing honey a stinging insect, for stealing milk a crow, for stealing condiments a dog, for stealing clarified butter an ichneumon;</P>
+ <P>63. For stealing meat a vulture, for stealing fat a cormorant, for stealing oil a winged animal (of the kind called) Tailapaka, for stealing salt a cricket, for stealing sour milk a bird (of the kind called) Balaka.</P>
+ <P>64. For stealing silk a partridge, for stealing linen a frog, for stealing cotton-cloth a crane, for stealing a cow an iguana, for stealing molasses a flying-fox;</P>
+ <P>65. For stealing fine perfumes a musk-rat, for stealing vegetables consisting of leaves a peacock, for stealing cooked food of various kinds a porcupine, for stealing uncooked food a hedgehog.</P>
+ <P>66. For stealing fire he becomes a heron, for stealing household-utensils a mason-wasp, for stealing dyed clothes a francolin-partridge;</P>
+ <P>67. For stealing a deer or an elephant a wolf, for stealing a horse a tiger, for stealing fruit and roots a monkey, for stealing a woman a bear, for stealing water a black-white cuckoo, for stealing vehicles a camel, for stealing cattle a he-goat.</P>
+ <P>68. That man who has forcibly taken away any kind of property belonging to another, or who has eaten sacrificial food (of) which (no portion) had been offered, inevitably becomes an animal.</P>
+ <P>69. Women, also, who in like manner have committed a theft, shall incur guilt; they will become the females of those same creatures (which have been enumerated above).</P>
+ <P>70. But (men of the four) castes who have relinquished without the pressure of necessity their proper occupations, will become the servants of Dasyus, after migrating into despicable bodies.</P>
+ <P>71. A Brahmana who has fallen off from his duty (becomes) an Ulkamukha Preta, who feeds on what has been vomited; and a Kshatriya, a Kataputana (Preta), who eats impure substances and corpses.</P>
+ <P>72. A Vaisya who has fallen off from his duty becomes a Maitrakshagyotika Preta, who feeds on pus; and a Sudra, a Kailasaka (Preta, who feeds on moths).</P>
+ <P>73. In proportion as sensual men indulge in sensual pleasures, in that same proportion their taste for them grows.</P>
+ <P>74. By repeating their sinful acts those men of small understanding suffer pain here (below) in various births;</P>
+ <P>75. (The torture of) being tossed about in dreadful hells, Tamisra and the rest, (that of) the Forest with sword-leaved trees and the like, and (that of) being bound and mangled;</P>
+ <P>76. And various torments, the (pain of) being devoured by ravens and owls, the heat of scorching sand, and the (torture of) being boiled in jars, which is hard to bear;</P>
+ <P>77. And births in the wombs (of) despicable (beings) which cause constant misery, and afflictions from cold and heat and terrors of various kinds,</P>
+ <P>78. The (pain of) repeatedly lying in various wombs and agonizing births, imprisonment in fetters hard to bear, and the misery of being enslaved by others,</P>
+ <P>79. And separations from their relatives and dear ones, and the (pain of) dwelling together with the wicked, (labour in) gaining wealth and its loss, (trouble in) making friends and (the appearance of) enemies,</P>
+ <P>80. Old age against which there is no remedy, the pangs of diseases, afflictions of many various kinds, and (finally) unconquerable death.</P>
+ <P>81. But with whatever disposition of mind (a man) forms any act, he reaps its result in a (future) body endowed with the same quality.</P>
+ <P>82. All the results, proceeding from actions, have been thus pointed out; learn (next) those acts which secure supreme bliss to a Brahmana.</P>
+ <P>83. Studying the Veda, (practising) austerities, (the acquisition of true) knowledge, the subjugation of the organs, abstention from doing injury, and serving the Guru are the best means for attaining supreme bliss.</P>
+ <P>84. (If you ask) whether among all these virtuous actions, (performed) here below, (there be) one which has been declared more efficacious (than the rest) for securing supreme happiness to man,</P>
+ <P>85. (The answer is that) the knowledge of the Soul is stated to be the most excellent among all of them; for that is the first of all sciences, because immortality is gained through that.</P>
+ <P>86. Among those six (kinds of) actions (enumerated) above, the performance of) the acts taught in the Veda must ever be held to be most efficacious for ensuring happiness in this world and the next.</P>
+ <P>87. For in the performance of the acts prescribed by the Veda all those (others) are fully comprised, (each) in its turn in the several rules for the rites.</P>
+ <P>88. The acts prescribed by the Veda are of two kinds, such as procure an increase of happiness and cause a continuation (of mundane existence, pravritta), and such as ensure supreme bliss and cause a cessation (of mundane existence, nivritta).</P>
+ <P>89. Acts which secure (the fulfilment of) wishes in this world or in the next are called pravritta (such as cause a continuation of mundane existence); but acts performed without any desire (for a reward), preceded by (the acquisition) of (true) knowledge, are declared to be nivritta (such as cause the cessation of mundane existence).</P>
+ <P>90. He who sedulously performs acts leading to future births (pravritta) becomes equal to the gods; but he who is intent on the performance of those causing the cessation (of existence, nivritta) indeed, passes beyond (the reach of) the five elements.</P>
+ <P>91. He who sacrifices to the Self (alone), equally recognising the Self in all created beings and all created beings in the Self, becomes (independent like) an autocrat and self-luminous.</P>
+ <P>92. After giving up even the above-mentioned sacrificial rites, a Brahmana should exert himself in (acquiring) the knowledge of the Soul, in extinguishing his passions, and in studying the Veda.</P>
+ <P>93. For that secures the attainment of the object of existence, especially in the case of a Brahmana, because by attaining that, not otherwise, a twice-born man has gained all his ends.</P>
+ <P>94. The Veda is the eternal eye of the manes, gods, and men; the Veda-ordinance (is) both beyond the sphere of (human) power, and beyond the sphere of (human) comprehension; that is a certain fact.</P>
+ <P>95. All those traditions (smriti) and those despicable systems of philosophy, which are not based on the Veda, produce no reward after death; for they are declared to be founded on Darkness.</P>
+ <P>96. All those (doctrines), differing from the (Veda), which spring up and (soon) perish, are worthless and false, because they are of modern date.</P>
+ <P>97. The four castes, the three worlds, the four orders, the past, the present, and the future are all severally known by means of the Veda.</P>
+ <P>98. Sound, touch, colour, taste, and fifthly smell are known through the Veda alone, (their) production (is) through the (Vedic rites, which in this respect are) secondary acts.</P>
+ <P>99. The eternal lore of the Veda upholds all created beings; hence I hold that to be supreme, which is the means of (securing happiness to) these creatures.</P>
+ <P>100. Command of armies, royal authority, the office of a judge, and sovereignty over the whole world he (only) deserves who knows the Veda-science.</P>
+ <P>101. As a fire that has gained strength consumes even trees full of sap, even so he who knows the Veda burns out the taint of his soul which arises from (evil) acts.</P>
+ <P>102. In whatever order (a man) who knows the true meaning of the Veda-science may dwell, he becomes even while abiding in this world, fit for the union with Brahman.</P>
+ <P>103. (Even forgetful) students of the (sacred) books are more distinguished than the ignorant, those who remember them surpass the (forgetful) students, those who possess a knowledge (of the meaning) are more distinguished than those who (only) remember (the words), men who follow (the teaching of the texts) surpass those who (merely) know (their meaning).</P>
+ <P>104. Austerity and sacred learning are the best means by which a Brahmana secures supreme bliss; by austerities he destroys guilt, by sacred learning he obtains the cessation of (births and) deaths.</P>
+ <P>105. The three (kinds of evidence), perception, inference, and the (sacred) Institutes which comprise the tradition (of) many (schools), must be fully understood by him who desires perfect correctness with respect to the sacred law.</P>
+ <P>106. He alone, and no other man, knows the sacred law, who explores the (utterances) of the sages and the body of the laws, by (modes of) reasoning, not repugnant to the Veda-lore.</P>
+ <P>107. Thus the acts which secure supreme bliss have been exactly and fully described; (now) the secret portion of these Institutes, proclaimed by Manu, will be taught.</P>
+ <P>108. If it be asked how it should be with respect to (points of) the law which have not been (specially) mentioned, (the answer is), 'that which Brahmanas (who are) Sishtas propound, shall doubtlessly have legal (force).'</P>
+ <P>109. Those Brahmanas must be considered as Sishtas who, in accordance with the sacred law, have studied the Veda together with its appendages, and are able to adduce proofs perceptible by the senses from the revealed texts.</P>
+ <P>110. Whatever an assembly, consisting either of at least ten, or of at least three persons who follow their prescribed occupations, declares to be law, the legal (force of) that one must not dispute.</P>
+ <P>111. Three persons who each know one of the three principal Vedas, a logician, a Mimamsaka, one who knows the Nirukta, one who recites (the Institutes of) the sacred law, and three men belonging to the first three orders shall constitute a (legal) assembly, consisting of at least ten members.</P>
+ <P>112. One who knows the Rig-veda, one who knows the Yagur-veda, and one who knows the Sama-veda, shall be known (to form) an assembly consisting of at least three members (and competent) to decide doubtful points of law.</P>
+ <P>113. Even that which one Brahmana versed in the Veda declares to be law, must be considered (to have) supreme legal (force, but) not that which is proclaimed by myriads of ignorant men.</P>
+ <P>114. Even if thousands of Brahmanas, who have not fulfilled their sacred duties, are unacquainted with the Veda, and subsist only by the name of their caste, meet, they cannot (form) an assembly (for settling the sacred law).</P>
+ <P>115. The sin of him whom dunces, incarnations of Darkness, and unacquainted with the law, instruct (in his duty), falls, increased a hundredfold, on those who propound it.</P>
+ <P>116. All that which is most efficacious for securing supreme bliss has been thus declared to you; a Brahmana who does not fall off from that obtains the most excellent state.</P>
+ <P>117. Thus did that worshipful deity disclose to me, through a desire of benefiting mankind, this whole most excellent secret of the sacred law.</P>
+ <P>118. Let (every Brahmana), concentrating his mind, fully recognise in the Self all things, both the real and the unreal, for he who recognises the universe in the Self, does not give his heart to unrighteousness.</P>
+ <P>119. The Self alone is the multitude of the gods, the universe rests on the Self; for the Self produces the connexion of these embodied (spirits) with actions.</P>
+ <P>120. Let him meditate on the ether as identical with the cavities (of the body), on the wind as identical with the organs of motions and of touch, on the most excellent light as the same with his digestive organs and his sight, on water as the same with the (corporeal) fluids, on the earth as the same with the solid parts (of his body);</P>
+ <P>121. On the moon as one with the internal organ, on the quarters of the horizon as one with his sense of hearing, on Vishnu as one with his (power of) motion, on Hara as the same with his strength, on Agni (Fire) as identical with his speech, on Mitra as identical with his excretions, and on Pragapati as one with his organ of generation.</P>
+ <P>122. Let him know the supreme Male (Purusha, to be) the sovereign ruler of them all, smaller even than small, bright like gold, and perceptible by the intellect (only when) in (a state of) sleep (-like abstraction).</P>
+ <P>123. Some call him Agni (Fire), others Manu, the Lord of creatures, others Indra, others the vital air, and again others eternal Brahman.</P>
+ <P>124. He pervades all created beings in the five forms, and constantly makes them, by means of birth, growth and decay, revolve like the wheels (of a chariot).</P>
+ <P>125. He who thus recognises the Self through the Self in all created beings, becomes equal (-minded) towards all, and enters the highest state, Brahman.</P>
+ <P>126. A twice-born man who recites these Institutes, revealed by Manu, will be always virtuous in conduct, and will reach whatever condition he desires.</P>
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 //  veda exports
 import agent from './agent.json' with {type:'json'};
 import vars from './vars.json' with {type:'json'};
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+import {data} from './rigveda/index.js';
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+// set the __dirname
+import {dirname} from 'node:path';
+import {fileURLToPath} from 'node:url';
+const __dirname = dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));
+"use strict";
+// (c)2025 Quinn Michaels; All rights reserved.
+export function	manu(packet) {
+	this.context('manu', packet.id);
+	this.action('method', `manu:${packet.id}`);
+	return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+		const data = {};
+		const {personal} = this.legal();
+		this.state('try', `Manu Laws:${packet.id}`);
+		try {
+			data.manu = personal.manu;
+			data.files = [];
+			for (let x = 0; x < data.manu.length; x++) {
+				const file = data.manu[x];
+				const filePath = this.lib.path.join(__dirname, file);
+				const html = this.lib.fs.readFileSync(filePath);
+				const title = html.toString().split('<CENTER><H1>')[1].split('</H1></CENTER>')[0];
+				const formatHTML = html.toString().split('</H1></CENTER>')[1].split('</BODY>')[0];
+				const htmlData = formatHTML.replace(/\<\/P\>\n?\s?/gi, '').replace(/\'\d+\.\s?/g, '').split(/\<P\>\d+\.\s?/);
+				const laws = htmlData.map(item => {
+					const law = {
+						id: this.lib.uid(),
+						law: item,
+						created: this.lib.formatDate(Date.now(), 'long', true),
+					};
+					law.hash = this.lib.hash(law);
+					return law;
+				});
+				const result = {
+					id: this.lib.uid(),
+					title,
+					data: laws,
+					created: this.lib.formatDate(Date.now(), 'long', true),
+				};
+				result.hash = this.lib.hash(result);
+				data.files.push(result);
+				const key = x+1 < 10 ? `0${x+1}.json` : `${x+1}.json`;
+				const jsonfile = this.lib.path.join(__dirname, 'data', 'laws', 'manu', key);
+				this.lib.fs.writeFileSync(jsonfile, JSON.stringify(result, null, 2), {encoding:'utf8',flag:'w'});
+			}
+		}
+		catch(e) {
+			return this.error(e, packet, reject);
+		}
+		finally {
+			console.log('DATA RESULT', data);
+			return resolve({
+				text: this.vars.messages.manu,
+				html: this.vars.messages.manu,
+				data
+			});
+		}
+	});
+}
+export async function manuhash(packet) {
+	this.context('manu', packet.id);
+	this.action('method', `manuhash:${packet.id}`);
+	const filepath = this.lib.path.join(__dirname, 'manu', `${packet.q.text}.json`);
+	const filedata = this.lib.fs.readFileSync(filepath);
+	const filejson = JSON.parse(filedata);
+	const newdata = {
+		id: this.lib.uid(),
+		title: filejson.title,
+		created: this.lib.formatDate(Date.now(), 'long', true),
+		hash: false,
+		data: [],
+	}
+	for (let item of filejson.data) {
+		const dbstr = item.dbid ? `${this.askChr}legal add:${item.dbid}` : `${this.askChr}legal add`;
+		const dblaw = await this.question(`${dbstr} ${item.law}`);
+		const newitem = {
+			id: this.lib.uid(),
+			dbid: dblaw.a.data,
+			law: item.law,
+			created: this.lib.formatDate(Date.now(), 'long', true),
+		};
+		newitem.hash = this.lib.hash(`${newitem.id}${newitem.dbid}${newitem.created}${newitem.law}`);
+		newdata.data.push(newitem);
+	}
+	this.prompt(`filepath: ${filepath}`)
+	this.lib.fs.writeFileSync(filepath, JSON.stringify(newdata, null, 2), {encoding:'utf8',flag:'w'});
+	return Promise.resolve({
+		text: 'rehash data',
+		html: 'rehash data',
+		data: false,
+	});
+}

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+{
+  "id": 5671674128504,
+  "title": "CHAPTER I.",
+  "created": "Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 1:40:14 PM",
+  "hash": false,
+  "data": [
+    {
+      "id": 5056460764324,
+      "dbid": "67f589ae4da742404f3f129d",
+      "law": "The great sages approached Manu, who was seated with a collected mind, and, having duly worshipped him, spoke as follows: 'Deign, divine one, to declare to us precisely and in due order the sacred laws of each of the four chief castes and of the intermediate ones.",
+      "created": "Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 1:40:14 PM",
+      "hash": "md5-MTebIU4Wpc7eSCB3lPgubg=="
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 6894705680162,
+      "dbid": "67f589ae4da742404f3f129e",
+      "law": "For thou, O Lord, alone knowest the purport, (i.e.) the rites, and the knowledge of the soul, taught in this whole ordinance of the Self-existent (Svayambhu), which is unknowable and unfathomable. He, whose power is measureless, being thus asked by the high-minded great sages, duly honoured them, and answered, 'Listen!'",
+      "created": "Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 1:40:14 PM",
+      "hash": "md5-YpTEKTQazc/31ha7P1JYjQ=="
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 4311498491909,
+      "dbid": "67f589ae4da742404f3f129f",
+      "law": "This universe existed in the shape of Darkness, unperceived, destitute of distinctive marks, unattainable by reasoning, unknowable, wholly immersed, as it were, in deep sleep. Then the divine Self-existent (Svayambhu, himself) indiscernible, but making all this, the great elements and the rest, discernible, appeared with irresistible creative power, dispelling the darkness.",
+      "created": "Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 1:40:14 PM",
+      "hash": "md5-mgaOcolHnAHqc9JLlYfrVg=="
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 6952468384655,
+      "dbid": "67f589ae4da742404f3f12a0",
+      "law": "He who can be perceived by the internal organ alone, who is subtile, indiscernible, and eternal, who contains all created beings and is inconceivable, shone forth of his own will. He, desiring to produce beings of many kinds from his own body, first with a thought created the waters, and placed his seed in them. That seed became a golden egg, in brilliancy equal to the sun; in that (egg) he himself was born as Brahman, the progenitor of the whole world.",
+      "created": "Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 1:40:14 PM",
+      "hash": "md5-9xojiX8eW7/7GJfizW2Z/g=="
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 3155207862582,
+      "dbid": "67f589ae4da742404f3f12a1",
+      "law": "The waters are called Narah, for the waters are, indeed, the offspring of Nara; as they were his first residence (Ayana), he thence is named Narayana. From that first cause, which is indiscernible, eternal, and both real and unreal, was produced that male, Purusha, who is famed in this world under the appellation of Brahman.",
+      "created": "Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 1:40:14 PM",
+      "hash": "md5-MkKjTDyENpIoIz5R59UH2g=="
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 5627766289846,
+      "dbid": "67f589ae4da742404f3f12a2",
+      "law": "The divine one resided in that egg during a whole year, then he himself by his thought alone divided it into two halves. Out of those two halves he formed heaven and earth, between them the middle sphere, the eight points of the horizon, and the eternal abode of the waters. From himself, Atmanah, he also drew forth the mind, which is both real and unreal, likewise from the mind egoism, which possesses the function of self-consciousness.",
+      "created": "Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 1:40:14 PM",
+      "hash": "md5-qQVBlcaLfYodGRlGlxHMeg=="
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 4353895148223,
+      "dbid": "67f589ae4da742404f3f12a3",
+      "law": "Moreover, the great one, the soul, and all products affected by the three qualities, and, in their order, the five organs which perceive the objects of sensation. But, joining minute particles even of those six, which possess measureless power, with particles of himself, he created all beings. Because those six kinds of minute particles, which form the creator's frame, enter these creatures, therefore the wise call his frame, Sarira, (the body.)",
+      "created": "Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 1:40:14 PM",
+      "hash": "md5-9ytZKSspkaZyXoAHvfXZ+g=="
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 4791801750525,
+      "dbid": "67f589ae4da742404f3f12a4",
+      "law": "That the great elements enter, together with their functions and the mind, through its minute parts the framer of all beings, the imperishable one. But from minute body-framing particles of these seven very powerful Purushas springs this world, the perishable from the imperishable.",
+      "created": "Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 1:40:14 PM",
+      "hash": "md5-Yt26MWaDN/GpcKb9kklBnA=="
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 4897019101710,
+      "dbid": "67f589ae4da742404f3f12a5",
+      "law": "Among them each succeeding element acquires the quality of the preceding one, and whatever place in the sequence each of them occupies, even so many qualities it is declared to possess. But in the beginning he assigned their several names, actions, and conditions to all (created beings), even according to the words of the Veda.",
+      "created": "Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 1:40:14 PM",
+      "hash": "md5-/Tbq30v6wXhYAo8EMLbR3w=="
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 5745075861625,
+      "dbid": "67f589ae4da742404f3f12a6",
+      "law": "He, the Lord, also created the class of the gods, who are endowed with life, and whose nature is action; and the subtile class of the Sadhyas, and the eternal sacrifice. But from fire, wind, and the sun he drew forth the threefold eternal Veda, called Rik, Yagus, and Saman, for the due performance of the sacrifice. Time and the divisions of time, the lunar mansions and the planets, the rivers, the oceans, the mountains, plains, and uneven ground.",
+      "created": "Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 1:40:14 PM",
+      "hash": "md5-EnFQZTJrckhqJSKeJX22Ug=="
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 4189191498985,
+      "dbid": "67f589ae4da742404f3f12a7",
+      "law": "Austerity, speech, pleasure, desire, and anger, this whole creation he likewise produced, as he desired to call these beings into existence. Moreover, in order to distinguish actions, he separated merit from demerit, and he caused the creatures to be affected by the pairs (of opposites), such as pain and pleasure. But with the minute perishable particles of the five (elements) which have been mentioned, this whole world is framed in due order.",
+      "created": "Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 1:40:14 PM",
+      "hash": "md5-Ra5IH3zZ84YmraZnyY8vRA=="
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 2366786263401,
+      "dbid": "67f589ae4da742404f3f12a8",
+      "law": "But to whatever course of action the Lord at first appointed each kind of beings, that alone it has spontaneously adopted in each succeeding creation. Whatever he assigned to each at the first creation, noxiousness or harmlessness, gentleness or ferocity, virtue or sin, truth or falsehood, that clung afterwards spontaneously to it.",
+      "created": "Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 1:40:14 PM",
+      "hash": "md5-kWgMxMkN/XB7DiokFIG9IQ=="
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 3591020436593,
+      "dbid": "67f589ae4da742404f3f12a9",
+      "law": "As at the change of the seasons each season of its own accord assumes its distinctive marks, even so corporeal beings resume in new births their appointed course of action. But for the sake of the prosperity of the worlds he caused the Brahmana, the Kshatriya, the Vaisya, and the Sudra to proceed from his mouth, his arms, his thighs, and his feet. Dividing his own body, the Lord became half male and half female; with that female he produced Virag.",
+      "created": "Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 1:40:14 PM",
+      "hash": "md5-jH9CcrmZeBHiDWRrXv1euA=="
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 2618177729970,
+      "dbid": "67f589ae4da742404f3f12aa",
+      "law": "But know me, O most holy among the twice-born, to be the creator of this whole world, whom that male, Virag, himself produced, having performed austerities. Then desiring to produce created beings, performed very difficult austerities, and thereby called into existence ten great sages, lords of created beings Mariki, Atri, Angiras, Pulastya, Pulaha, Kratu, Praketas, Vasishtha, Bhrigu, and Narada.",
+      "created": "Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 1:40:14 PM",
+      "hash": "md5-s7l4axTZMKlSVTNpqgYC9w=="
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 6792371367844,
+      "dbid": "67f589ae4da742404f3f12ab",
+      "law": "They created seven other Manus possessing great brilliancy, gods and classes of gods and great sages of measureless power, Yakshas the servants of Kubera, the demons called Rakshasas and Pisakas, Gandharvas or musicians of the gods, Apsarases the dancers of the gods, Asuras, the snake-deities called Nagas and Sarpas, the bird-deities called Suparnas and the several classes of the manes, Lightnings, thunderbolts and clouds, imperfect (rohita) and perfect rainbows, falling meteors, supernatural noises, comets, and heavenly lights of many kinds,<P>39 (Horse-faced) Kinnaras, monkeys, fishes, birds of many kinds, cattle, deer, men, and carnivorous beasts with two rows of teeth, small and large worms and beetles, moths, lice, flies, bugs, all stinging and biting insects and the several kinds of immovable things.",
+      "created": "Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 1:40:14 PM",
+      "hash": "md5-a6BSPWEqA1b4AlnnAKVkqQ=="
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 6585840334553,
+      "dbid": "67f589ae4da742404f3f12ac",
+      "law": "Thus was this whole creation, both the immovable and the movable, produced by those high-minded ones by means of austerities and at my command, each being according to the results of its actions. But whatever act is stated to belong to each of those creatures here below, that I will truly declare to you, as well as their order in respect to birth.",
+      "created": "Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 1:40:14 PM",
+      "hash": "md5-/QY51BY3iAlzZ/qKFCQQBg=="
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 2791177578969,
+      "dbid": "67f589ae4da742404f3f12ad",
+      "law": "Cattle, deer, carnivorous beasts with two rows of teeth, Rakshasas, Pisakas, and men are born from the womb. From eggs are born birds, snakes, crocodiles, fishes, tortoises, as well as similar terrestrial and aquatic animals. From hot moisture spring stinging and biting insects, lice, flies, bugs, and all other creatures of that kind which are produced by heat.",
+      "created": "Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 1:40:14 PM",
+      "hash": "md5-/ER89+qAs4Tb7doXetSqQQ=="
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 7139850295460,
+      "dbid": "67f589ae4da742404f3f12ae",
+      "law": "All plants, propagated by seed or by slips, grow from shoots; annual plants are those which, bearing many flowers and fruits, perish after the ripening of their fruit. Those trees which bear fruit without flowers are called Vanaspati, lords of the forest, but those which bear both flowers and fruit are called Vriksha.",
+      "created": "Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 1:40:14 PM",
+      "hash": "md5-L7TyPTxe7IPTVPo4dQz0ng=="
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 2137284242985,
+      "dbid": "67f589ae4da742404f3f12af",
+      "law": "But the various plants with many stalks, growing from one or several roots, the different kinds of grasses, the climbing plants and the creepers spring all from seed or from slips. These plants which are surrounded by multiform Darkness, the result of their acts in former existences, possess internal consciousness and experience pleasure and pain.",
+      "created": "Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 1:40:14 PM",
+      "hash": "md5-D3J1Pgl95Cb5NtqOuqVmRA=="
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 5738198993682,
+      "dbid": "67f589ae4da742404f3f12b0",
+      "law": "The various conditions in this always terrible and constantly changing circle of births and deaths to which created beings are subject, are stated to begin with that of Brahman, and to end with that of these mentioned immovable creatures.",
+      "created": "Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 1:40:14 PM",
+      "hash": "md5-q64la3QiAZh/lV1nFStmTg=="
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 2782282222718,
+      "dbid": "67f589ae4da742404f3f12b1",
+      "law": "When he whose power is incomprehensible, had thus produced the universe and men, he disappeared in himself, repeatedly suppressing one period by means of the other. When that divine one wakes, then this world stirs; when he slumbers tranquilly, then the universe sinks to sleep. But when he reposes in calm sleep, the corporeal beings whose nature is action, desist from their actions and mind becomes inert. When they are absorbed all at once in that great soul, then he who is the soul of all beings sweetly slumbers, free from all care and occupation.",
+      "created": "Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 1:40:14 PM",
+      "hash": "md5-FBnrz4F8CELj+VRaYGGI7g=="
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 3238510082373,
+      "dbid": "67f589ae4da742404f3f12b2",
+      "law": "When this soul has entered darkness, it remains for a long time united with the organs of sensation, but performs not its functions; it then leaves the corporeal frame. When, being clothed with minute particles only, it enters into vegetable or animal seed, it then assumes, united with the fine body, a new corporeal frame.",
+      "created": "Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 1:40:14 PM",
+      "hash": "md5-nHfzX/rTIKcqS/55jqR4Ng=="
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 1274929935619,
+      "dbid": "67f589ae4da742404f3f12b3",
+      "law": "Thus he, the imperishable one, by alternately waking and slumbering, incessantly revives and destroys this whole movable and immovable creation. But he having composed these Institutes of the sacred law, Svayambhu taught them, according to the rule, to Manu in the beginning; next Manu taught them to Mariki and the other sages. For that sage learned the whole in its entirety from Manu. Then that great sage Bhrigu, being thus addressed by Manu, spoke, pleased in his heart, to all the sages, 'Listen!' Six other high-minded, very powerful Manus, who belong to the race of this Manu, the descendant of the Self-existent (Svayambhu), and who have severally produced created beings, area Svarokisha, Auttami, Tamasa, Raivata, Kakshusha, possessing great lustre, and the son of Vivasvat.",
+      "created": "Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 1:40:14 PM",
+      "hash": "md5-DX80g1qBHgIAcCXd3YczHA=="
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 3792529668577,
+      "dbid": "67f589ae4da742404f3f12b4",
+      "law": "Mariki, Bhrigu, Svarokisha, Auttami, Tamasa, Raivata, Kakshusha. These seven very glorious Manus, the first among whom is Svayambhuva, produced and protected this whole movable and immovable creation, each during the period allotted to him. Eighteen nimeshas twinklings of the eye, are one kashtha, thirty kashthas one kala, thirty kalas one muhurta, and as many (muhurtas) one day and night.",
+      "created": "Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 1:40:14 PM",
+      "hash": "md5-Yx7l9vZ8lrdpIaXj/89UZw=="
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 1670230906504,
+      "dbid": "67f589ae4da742404f3f12b5",
+      "law": "The sun divides days and nights, both human and divine, the night (being intended) for the repose of created beings and the day for exertion. A month is a day and a night of the manes, but the division is according to fortnights. The dark (fortnight) is their day for active exertion, the bright (fortnight) their night for sleep.",
+      "created": "Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 1:40:14 PM",
+      "hash": "md5-02NGtHBN49LvM9s5ZloUsw=="
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 6283234005466,
+      "dbid": "67f589ae4da742404f3f12b6",
+      "law": "A year is a day and a night of the gods; their division is as follows: the half year during which the sun progresses to the north will be the day, that during which it goes southwards the night. But hear now the brief description of the duration of a night and a day of Brahman and of the several ages of the world, yuga according to their order. They declare that the Krita age consists of four thousand years of the gods; the twilight preceding it consists of as many hundreds, and the twilight following it of the same number. In the other three ages with their twilights preceding and following, the thousands and hundreds are diminished by one in each. These twelve thousand years which thus have been just mentioned as the total of four human ages, are called one age of the gods. But know that the sum of one thousand ages of the gods makes one day of Brahman, and that his night has the same length. Those only, who know that the holy day of Brahman, indeed, ends after the completion of one thousand ages of the gods and that his night lasts as long, are really men acquainted with the length of days and nights.",
+      "created": "Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 1:40:14 PM",
+      "hash": "md5-9I1967ckUyTx8ANY26A7eA=="
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 5877548553330,
+      "dbid": "67f589ae4da742404f3f12b7",
+      "law": "At the end of that day and night he who was asleep, awakes and, after awaking, creates mind, which is both real and unreal. Mind, impelled by Brahman's desire to create, performs the work of creation by modifying itself, thence ether is produced; they declare that sound is the quality of the latter. But from ether, modifying itself, springs the pure, powerful wind, the vehicle of all perfumes; that is held to possess the quality of touch. Next from wind modifying itself, proceeds the brilliant light, which illuminates and dispels darkness; that is declared to possess the quality of colour. And from light, modifying itself, is produced water, possessing the quality of taste, from water earth which has the quality of smell; such is the creation in the beginning.",
+      "created": "Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 1:40:14 PM",
+      "hash": "md5-q1ncyHr15+1OGDDw7NeewQ=="
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 4534999272627,
+      "dbid": "67f589ae4da742404f3f12b8",
+      "law": "The age of the gods, or twelve thousand of their years, being multiplied by seventy-one, constitutes what is here named the period of a Manu (Manvantara). The Manvantaras, the creations and destructions of the world, are numberless; sporting, as it were, Brahman repeats this again and again. In the Krita age Dharma is four-footed and entire, and so is Truth; nor does any gain accrue to men by unrighteousness. In the other three ages, by reason of unjust gains (agama), Dharma is deprived successively of one foot, and through the prevalence of theft, falsehood, and fraud the merit gained by men is diminished by one fourth in each. Men are free from disease, accomplish all their aims, and live four hundred years in the Krita age, but in the Treta and in each of the succeeding ages their life is lessened by one quarter.",
+      "created": "Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 1:40:14 PM",
+      "hash": "md5-eS4LenHXTRclWb52hInYyg=="
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 3754339650857,
+      "dbid": "67f589ae4da742404f3f12b9",
+      "law": "The life of mortals, mentioned in the Veda, the desired results of sacrificial rites and the supernatural power of embodied spirits are fruits proportioned among men according to the character of the age. One set of duties is prescribed for men in the Krita age, different ones in the Treta and in the Dvapara, and again another set in the Kali, in a proportion as those ages decrease in length. In the Krita age the chief virtue is declared to be the performance of austerities, in the Treta divine knowledge, in the Dvapara the performance of sacrifices, in the Kali liberality alone.",
+      "created": "Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 1:40:14 PM",
+      "hash": "md5-4QWa9K0ZCx+xpGwcw+s0dQ=="
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 1916587361652,
+      "dbid": "67f589ae4da742404f3f12ba",
+      "law": "But in order to protect this universe He, the most resplendent one, assigned separate duties and occupations to those who sprang from his mouth, arms, thighs, and feet. To Brahmanas he assigned teaching and studying the Veda, sacrificing for their own benefit and for others, giving and accepting of alms. The Kshatriya he commanded to protect the people, to bestow gifts, to offer sacrifices, to study the Veda, and to abstain from attaching himself to sensual pleasures. The Vaisya to tend cattle, to bestow gifts, to offer sacrifices, to study (the Veda), to trade, to lend money, and to cultivate land. One occupation only the lord prescribed to the Sudra, to serve these other three castes.",
+      "created": "Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 1:40:14 PM",
+      "hash": "md5-cilTkPMsBMuErIIiADouSg=="
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 4771887614473,
+      "dbid": "67f589ae4da742404f3f12bb",
+      "law": "Man is stated to be purer above the navel than below; hence the Self-existent (Svayambhu) has declared the purest part of him to be his mouth. As the Brahmana sprang from (Brahman's) mouth, as he was the first-born, and as he possesses the Veda, he is by right the lord of this whole creation. For the Self-existent (Svayambhu), having performed austerities, produced him first from his own mouth, in order that the offerings might be conveyed to the gods and manes and that this universe might be preserved. What created being can surpass him, through whose mouth the gods continually consume the sacrificial viands and the manes the offerings to the dead?",
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+      "hash": "md5-fx7xQO21ZRZL18/Blhorpw=="
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 3200455374714,
+      "dbid": "67f589ae4da742404f3f12bc",
+      "law": "Of created beings the most excellent are said to be those which are animated; of the animated, those which subsist by intelligence; of the intelligent, mankind; and of men, the Brahmanas. Of Brahmanas, those learned in the Veda. Of the learned, those who recognise the necessity and the manner of performing the prescribed duties. Of those who possess this knowledge, those who perform them. Of the performers, those who know the Brahman.",
+      "created": "Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 1:40:14 PM",
+      "hash": "md5-QzI1a4EXHOBKyhBxJlDPuA=="
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 7124425571103,
+      "dbid": "67f589ae4da742404f3f12bd",
+      "law": "The very birth of a Brahmana is an eternal incarnation of the sacred law; for he is born to fulfil the sacred law, and becomes one with Brahman. A Brahmana, coming into existence, is born as the highest on earth, the lord of all created beings, for the protection of the treasury of the law. Whatever exists in the world is, the property of the Brahmana; on account of the excellence of his origin The Brahmana is, indeed, entitled to all.",
+      "created": "Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 1:40:14 PM",
+      "hash": "md5-62l93huSFV4zIDQi1ExkGw=="
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 3794218989034,
+      "dbid": "67f589af4da742404f3f12be",
+      "law": "The Brahmana eats but his own food, wears but his own apparel, bestows but his own in alms; other mortals subsist through the benevolence of the Brahmana. In order to clearly settle his duties those of the other castes according to their order, wise Manu sprung from the Self-existent, composed these Institutes of the sacred Law. A learned Brahmana must carefully study them, and he must duly instruct his pupils in them, but nobody else shall do it.",
+      "created": "Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 1:40:15 PM",
+      "hash": "md5-YqPK9OZ5quqyf7k+a3HR0w=="
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 4130128251511,
+      "dbid": "67f589af4da742404f3f12bf",
+      "law": "A Brahmana who studies these Institutes and faithfully fulfils the duties prescribed therein, is never tainted by sins, arising from thoughts, words, or deeds. He sanctifies any company which he may enter, seven ancestors and seven descendants, and he alone deserves to possess this whole earth. To study this work is the best means of securing welfare, it increases understanding, it procures fame and long life, it leads to supreme bliss.",
+      "created": "Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 1:40:15 PM",
+      "hash": "md5-qZHULvGUmP39Jd+de3J7Bg=="
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 3252792335261,
+      "dbid": "67f589af4da742404f3f12c0",
+      "law": "In this work the sacred law has been fully stated as well as the good and bad qualities of human actions and the immemorial rule of conduct, to be followed by all the four castes. The rule of conduct is transcendent law, whether it be taught in the revealed texts or in the sacred tradition; hence a twice-born man who possesses regard for himself, should be always careful to follow it.",
+      "created": "Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 1:40:15 PM",
+      "hash": "md5-e5af2sudIp+8aNr5CPleHw=="
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 5511366693581,
+      "dbid": "67f589af4da742404f3f12c1",
+      "law": "A Brahmana who departs from the rule of conduct, does not reap the fruit of the Veda, but he who duly follows it, will obtain the full reward. The sages who saw that the sacred law is thus grounded on the rule of conduct, have taken good conduct to be the most excellent root of all austerity.",
+      "created": "Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 1:40:15 PM",
+      "hash": "md5-pjOA3WpSvGjw3jH9o+vquQ=="
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 1414928224433,
+      "dbid": "67f589af4da742404f3f12c2",
+      "law": "The creation of the universe, the rule of the sacraments, the ordinances of studentship, and the respectful behaviour towards Gurus, the most excellent rule of bathing on return from the teacher's house. The law of marriage and the description of the various marriage-rites, the regulations for the great sacrifices and the eternal rule of the funeral sacrifices. The description of the modes of gaining subsistence and the duties of a Snataka, the rules regarding lawful and forbidden food, the purification of men and of things.",
+      "created": "Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 1:40:15 PM",
+      "hash": "md5-8fTPxOSie2rWs7da11jD6w=="
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 6945877564597,
+      "dbid": "67f589af4da742404f3f12c3",
+      "law": "The laws concerning women, the law of hermits, the manner of gaining final emancipation and of renouncing the world, the whole duty of a king and the manner of deciding lawsuits. The rules for the examination of witnesses, the laws concerning husband and wife, the law of inheritance and division, the law concerning gambling and the removal of men nocuous like thorns. The law concerning the behaviour of Vaisyas and Sudras, the origin of the mixed castes, the law for all castes in times of distress and the law of penances. The threefold course of transmigrations, the result of (good or bad) actions, (the manner of attaining) supreme bliss and the examination of the good and bad qualities of actions.",
+      "created": "Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 1:40:15 PM",
+      "hash": "md5-37x2ga/z20U0mrXSoKPRVg=="
+    },
+    {
+      "id": 1387186362343,
+      "dbid": "67f589af4da742404f3f12c4",
+      "law": "The primeval laws of countries, of castes, of families, and the rules concerning heretics and companies of traders and the like- all that Manu has declared in these Institutes. As Manu, in reply to my questions, formerly promulgated these Institutes, even so learn ye also the whole work.",
+      "created": "Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 1:40:15 PM",
+      "hash": "md5-fPLVk6upBaVJDvz76eSOag=="
+    }
+  ]
+}