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and on the perpetrators of a heavy crime he should inflict corporal punishment.
8. (Gentle) admonition and (harsh) reproof are declared to be the privilege of the Brahman (appointed as chief judge); but both fines and corporal punishment may be inflicted by the king only.
9. Both hands, both feet, the male organ, the eye, the tongue, both ears, the nose, the neck, one half of the feet, the thumb and index, the forehead, the lips, the hindpart, and the hips:
BRIHASPATI.
XXVII, 8.
10. These fourteen places of punishment have been indicated. For a Brahman, branding him on the forehead is ordained as the only kind of punish
ment.
II. A Brahman, though a mortal sinner, shall not suffer capital punishment; the king shall banish him, and cause him to be branded and shaved.
12. That man who deserves capital punishment shall be compelled to pay one hundred Suvarnas; one deserving to have a limb cut off, half as much; and one deserving to have the thumb and index (cut off), half of that.
8. Ratn. p. 630. 12. Ratn. p. 656.
13. The eighteen titles of law have been explained, together with the particulars of plaint and answer. Learn now (the law regarding) the relative validity of transactions.
14. That transaction which has been prior in time (to another) shall be upheld. If it is departed from, that is (called) an alteration of a transaction.
15. If a creditor or debtor revokes a previous
9, 10. Ratn. p. 631. II. Ratn. p. 634. 13-18. Ratn. pp. 618-620.
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