Vinaya Texts

SR No.: 007684
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: T W Rhys Davids, Hermann Oldenberg
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1881
Total Pages: 2523
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 47 MB

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VIII, 390.
MISCELLANEOUS RULES.
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Vaisya; but (for the same offence) a Kshatriya shall be shaved with the urine (of a donkey) or (pay) the same fine.
385. A Brâhmana who approaches unguarded females (of the) Kshatriya or Vaisya (castes), or a Sūdra female, shall be fined five hundred (panas); but (for intercourse with) a female (of the) lowest (castes), one thousand.
386. That king in whose town lives no thief, no adulterer, no defamer, no man guilty of violence, and no committer of assaults, attains the world of Sakra (Indra).
387. The suppression of those five in his dominions secures to a king paramount sovereignty among his peers and fame in the world.
388. A sacrificer who forsakes an officiating priest, and an officiating priest who forsakes a sacrificer, (each being) able to perform his work and not contaminated (by grievous crimes), must each be fined one hundred (panas).
389. Neither a mother, nor a father, nor a wife, nor a son shall be cast off; he who casts them off, unless guilty of a crime causing loss of caste, shall be fined by the king six hundred (panas).
390. If twice-born men dispute among each other
. 385. 'A female of the lowest castes,'i.e.'a Kandali' (Gov., Kull., Râgh.), or 'belonging to the castes of washermen, leather-workers, actors, basket-makers, fishermen, Medas, or Bhillas '(Nar.).
386. Vi. V, 196.
388. 'An officiating priest,' i. e. one who has sacrificed for his family since many generations' (Gov., Når.).
389. Vi. V, 163; Yâgh. II, 237. "Shall not be cast off,' i.e. 'shall not be refused maintenance or the due respect' (Medh., Gov., Kull.).
390. 'Of the orders,' i. e. of the four orders' (Nár., Râgh.), or ‘of the householders' (Gov., Kull.). Medh. and Nand. take asrama
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