The man who knows the rules of morality and sits in an assembly, certainly incurs the sin of lie, if he answers falsely a question put to him.
यः पुनर्वितथं ब्रूयाद् धर्मदर्शी सभां गतः। अनृतस्य फलं कृत्स्नं सम्प्राप्नोतीति निश्चयः॥