Grihya Sutras

SR No.: 007685
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hermann Oldenberg
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1886
Total Pages: 2642
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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BRIHASPATI.
XX, 6.
6. When persons equal in caste and qualities abuse one another, the punishment ordained for them in the system of law is thirteen Panas and a half.
7. For a Brahman abusing a Kshatriya, the fine shall be half of a hundred (fifty Panas); for abusing a Vaisya, half of fifty (twenty-five Panas); for abusing a Sudra, twelve and a half.
8. This punishment has been declared for (abusing) a virtuous Sudra who has committed no wrong ; no offence is imputable to a Brahman for abusing (a Sadra) devoid of virtue.
9. A Vaisya shall be fined a hundred (Panas) for reviling a Kshatriya; a Kshatriya reviling a Vaisya shall have to pay half of that amount as a fine.
10. In the case of a Kshatriya reviling a Sudra, the. fine shall be twenty Panas; in the case of a Vaisya, the double amount is declared to be the proper fine by persons learned in law.
11. A Sudra shall be compelled to pay the first fine for abusing a Vaisya; the middling fine (for abusing) a Kshatriya ; and the highest fine (for abusing) a Brahman.
12. (A Sudra) teaching the precepts of religion, or uttering the words of the Veda, or insulting a Brahman, shall be punished by cutting out his tongue.
13. (A man) reviling a sister or other (relation) of
6. Ratn. p. 247; Vîram. p. 483. 7-11. Ratn. pp. 251, 252 ; Vfram. p. 485. 7. May. p. 138. 12. May. p. 138; Vîram. p. 486; Viv. p. 141; Ratn. p. 252.
13. Ratn. p. 250; Vîram. p. 485. The latter work reads vipradikam, 'a Brahman or other person,' for svasrâdikam, 'a sister or other relative.
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