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.
XXI, 5.
5. When a person throws gravel, stones, or pieces of wood at another, the first (or lowest) fine shall be inflicted on him. When they mutually strike one another with a hand or foot, it shall amount to ten or twenty Panas respectively.
6. The second fine shall be imposed when two persons in anger use weapons against one another ; when a wound has been inflicted, the punishment shall be fixed by experts, corresponding to the severity of the hurt.
7. For injuring (a person) with bricks, stones, or a wooden club, (the fine shall be) two Mashas; the double fine shall be inflicted, according to the sages, when blood flows.
8. For tearing the skin, the first (or lowest) fine (shall be inflicted); for tearing the flesh, the second fine ; for breaking a bone, the highest fine; for killing, capital punishment.
9. For breaking the ear, nose, or hand (of a person), or injuring his teeth, or feet, the second fine shall be inflicted; and double of that, for entirely cutting off (any of those limbs).
10. He who injures a limb, or divides it, or cuts it off, shall be compelled to pay the expense of curing it; and (he who forcibly took an article in a quarrel, shall restore) his plunder.
11. When a man has been beaten in a solitary place, or when no wound is seen, the offender shall
5. Ratn. p. 263 ; Viv. p. 145; Vfram. p. 473. 6, 7. Viram. p. 474 ; Viv. p. 147; Ratn. p. 264. 8, 9. Viv. p. 148. 10. Viv. p. 153 ; Ratn. p. 370; Vtram. p. 477. 11, 12. Ratn. p. 273.
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