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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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INTRODUCTION
Enumeration and Punishment The following come within the category of State offences, viz. :(1) Transgression of the orders of the king (cf. modern
“contempt of court," section 228 of the Indian
Penal Code), (2) Causing disruption among the prefects of the city, (3) Causing disaffection among the subjects, (4) Upsetting the code of conduct of the dissenting
communities like the Buddhists and that of
merchants, (5) Quarrel between father and son, (6) Non-performance of expiatory rites, (7) Discontinuing gifts to deserving persons,
(8) Intermixture of higher and lower castes, and so forth.
Punishment for the first offence is death or mutilation; that for the fifth offence (i.e., furnishing grounds for the quarrel between father and son) is the fine of ETARE# (i.e., copper coins ranging between six hundred and one thousand).
He wbo engages himself in pastimes which are proper for the king only, or who puts on royal robes without the king's sanction, or who assumes government without heing authorised by the king to that effect, or who spreads dissatisfaction against the king (cf. modern sedition as embodied in section 124A of the Indian Penal Code), is to be put to death. Those officers of the king who alter a judicial or executive pronouncement, or let loose thieves and profligates are to be fined with 3THFIFAU. Those citizens who take to injuring one another without sufficient cause, or take up arms without necessity, or enter into criminal conspiracy, are to be punished. Those who misappropriate things common to the village deserve banishment and forfeiture of property.
The lost property of private persons, if traced by the king, should be made over to the real owners. If the real owners do not turn up then and there, the king should wait for three years. If even after the lapse of three years, the same thing happens, the king should appropriate one-sixth of the
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