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Sixth Stage
With Hindi Bhashya Commentary.
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Cut him off. Bind him with the tail of a lion or a bull. Burn him with fire. Arrange to feed him pieces of his flesh like cowrie shells. Stop his food and water. Keep him in bondage for life. Kill him with some other inauspicious death.
Commentary - This sutra describes the unjust and cruel behavior of a non-believer towards his outer council. If a non-believer is the head of a village, etc. and even a minor offense is committed by his servants, etc., then filled with anger, he prescribes the following severe punishments:
Confiscate all his possessions. Shave off the hair on his head. Humiliate him, beat him with whips, etc., bind him with fetters or chains. Tie him to a wooden post. Imprison him. Constrict and twist his limbs with shackles and bonds. When his limbs are tightly bound, he will regain consciousness. Cut off his hands, feet, nose, ears, head, lips, and mouth. Amputate his genitals. Pierce his heart. Similarly, pluck out his eyes, testicles, teeth, face, and tongue. Thrust a spear through his lower abdomen and pull it out through his mouth. Pierce his abdomen and other parts with a trident. Wound his body with weapons and rub salt on the wounds. Tear him apart with a saw. "Sinha-pucchita" - this means to cut off his penis in the same way as when a lion copulates with a lioness, the penis gets severed upon withdrawal. However, the Ardha-Magadhi dictionary states that peeling off the skin from the back of the neck and hanging him with the shape of a lion's tail, or peeling off the skin in the shape of a bull's tail is a form of education, etc. And binding him like a monkey with a lion's or bull's tail, because a person bound with the tail of a lion or bull becomes an object of great ridicule. By implication, one should understand binding with the tail of an elephant, etc.