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that his religious duties have not been fulfilled by (or that the initiatory and other sacramental rites have not been performed for) him, shall be fined two hundred Panas.
27. If a man is blind with one eye, or lame, or defective in any similar way, and another calls him so, he shall be fined two Kârshậpanas, though he speaks the truth.
28. He shall be fined a hundred Kârshậpanas for defaming a Guru.
29. He shall pay the highest amercement for imputing to another (a great crime) entailing loss of caste;
30. The second amercement for (imputing to another) a minor offence (such as the slaughter of a cow);
31. The same for reviling a Brâhmana versed in the three Vedas, or an old man, or a (whole) caste or corporation (of judges or others);
32. For reviling a village or district, the lowest amercement;
33. For using insulting language (such as 'I shall visit your sister,' or ' I shall visit your daughter'), a hundred Kârshâpanas;
34. For insulting a man by using bad language regarding his mother (such as 'I shall visit your mother' or the like speeches), the highest amercement.
35. For abusing a man of his own caste, he shall be fined twelve Panas.
36. For abusing a man of a lower caste, he shall be fined six (Panas).
32. Nand. infers from the use of the particle ka that'a family' is also intended here.
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