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CHAPTER XX, 163-XXI, 6.
and the amount of the reward (navisn); the amount of speciality in the ransom (navâk) of every one, each separately; the act and place of punishment, what is the person who is strangling and the mode, how those who are therein strangling are drawn forth (nazi-aito) successively, and which is set to work first.
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2. About a person whose offending limbs are bound, the degree of tightness of the binding and fettering, and the formula (nirang) of being bound for the sin of theft. 3. About imprisonment, and the imprisonment which accusers have to provide, at their own expense, if they are those who are privileged; and whatever is on the same subject. 4. The number of places for fetters, and those which the thief, whoever he is, possesses, each separately. 5. How far, how, and for what putting on of fetters (garov-da hisnth) those accusers have to provide a thief's fetters, too, at their own expense, if they are those who are privileged; the place for the requisite privileged putting on of fetters, the sin owing to putting on more fetters of a different kind, and that which is owing to neglecting the putting on of the fetters which they have to provide; the limit as regards the deserving of more fettering, the number of grades of theft beyond the limit of deserving fettering, and those which are below the limit of deserving fettering.
6. About the kinds of theft, and the excessive sinfulness of a thief through cutting1 and wounding the body; the undiscoverableness which is specially as regards a thief at a distance (pavan hâsar), he
1 Assuming that gûdano stands for khudano.
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| SR No. | 007682 |
| Book Title | Questions of King Milinda Part 02 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | T W Rhys Davids |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1894 |
| Total Pages | 2240 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 38 MB |