Or, if it be said that, the axe being only the material cause, the consequence of the act should attach to the animate agent, then the sin visits to the person who has made the axe. This, however, can scarcely be true.
अथवा तदुपादानात् प्राप्नुयात् कर्मणः फलम्। दण्डशस्त्रकृतं पापं पुरुषे तन्न विद्यते॥