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a businessmen, (3) Assembly of brahmins, and (4) Assembly of saints * (Rishis)."
Keshi Kumar Shraman then asked—“Do you also know what punishment is pressible for each of the four examples ?" ___Pradeshi replied-“Yes, I know. (1) In.case a member of assembly of Kshatriya, commits any crime or insults any one, his hands are cut, his feet are chopped or head is removed or he is hanged on the scaffold or he is run over and made lifeless. In other words he is killed.
(2) In case a member of the assembly of rich businessmen (Gathapati) commits any crime, he is wrapped in dry grass, in tree leaves or in hay and pushed in burning fire.
(3) In case a member of assembly of brahmins commits any crime, he is insulted with undesirable, unpalatable harsh (language) words. Thereafter a hot iron mark or the dog mark is
printed on his body or he is exiled. In other words he is expelled * from the state.
(4) In case a member of the assembly of saints (Rishis) commits * any crime, he is not addressed with very undesirable words nor very
harsh language is used against him to point out his guilt to him. ___Keshi Kumar Shraman then said "O Pradeshi ! You, knowing fully well such a code of punishment are behaving with me in a different, haughty, undesirable and totally opposite way (than the prescribed one).”
२६२. तए णं पएसी राया केसिं कुमारसमणं एवं वयासी
एवं खलु अहं देवाणुप्पियएहिं पढमिल्लुएणं चेव वागरणेण संलत्ते, तए णं ममं इमेयारूवे अज्झथिए जाव संकप्पे समुपज्जित्था जहा जहा णं एयस्स पुरिसस्स वामं वामेणं जाव विवच्चासं विवच्चासेणं वट्टिस्सामि तहा तहा णं अहं नाणं च नाणोवलंभं च करणं च करणोवलंभं च दंसणं च दंसणोवलंभं च जीवं च जीवोवलंभं च उवलभिस्सामि, तं एएणं अहं कारणेणं देवाणुप्पियाणं वामं वामेणं जाव विवच्चासं विवच्चासेणं वट्टिए।
२६२. तब प्रदेशी राजा ने केशीकुमार श्रमण से अपनी मनोभावना व्यक्त करते हुए
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