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INTRODUCTION
killing ordinary women and lower animals is the same as that for killing a Śūdra.
If a Brahmin kills members of the three lower castes, bis punishment will be the same as that of any of the three lower castes perpetrating the offence. But if he kills a Brahmin, sentence of death only would follow and not forfeiture of property.
Whenever several persons take to helabouring a single individual out of anger, that person is to be treated as the murderer, who deals out the terrific blow, which furnishes the real cause of death. He alone is to be punished with the scheduled punishment, while all other persons are liable to half the punishment, inasmuch as they are accessories and are styled, as the case may be, as #ITH , #TA, 377, TOHTA, Aufgau#, Tastat, guma, gatza eto.
He who secures by money the services of another to commit a crime is to be awarded four times the punishment to be dealt out to the actual wrong-doer.
T'heft The Chapter on Theft is rather a big one and contains a discussion of the following topics :-- (1) On grocers and dealers for cheating customers by
false weights. (2) On manufacturers of imitation articles. (3) On quacks. (4) On gamblers. (5) On bogus astrologers. (6) On persons who extort money by false impersona
tion. (7) On chanters of false incantations. (8) On swindlers and professional criminals. (9) On burglars and pickpockets. (10) On stealers of precious objects.
Vardhamāna has defined Theft as "unlawful taking of other man's things”. He has also differentiated it from robbery, inasmuch as robbery consists in depriving other men of their property, not surreptitiously but by force. Vardha
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