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TILAKAMANJARI OF DHANAPĀLA
legal texts. Bhoga was the periodic offerings of fruits, fire-woods, flowers, milk, curd etc.1
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Dhanapala has referred to the villagers greeting the king in many ways with rice fields guarded by the arrays of guards. The sugarcane fields pillaged by the looters excited the disparagement of king because his orders had been violated. This implies that the protection of the agricultural produce needed the royal interference in point of security which means that the king had a share by way of taxes out of them. The term 'gṛhadhanam' may coincide with hiranya which was collected by the 'Baladhikṛta' and deposited with the ladies of his harem.2
5. JUDICIARY
Regarding the judiciary 'Dharamastheyas' were the outstanding officers who interpreted the law judiciously. Dhanapala has referred to Dharmastheyas as a formality when Meghavahana's command kept down injustice. This implies the supremacy of the king over the administration of justice. The punishment in case of crimes could be severe enough in the form of amputating the limbs such as hands and feet, exile, making the culprit ride a donkey and other ways suggested by the Codes of Law."
'पक्षिणांदिव्यग्रहणम्' by Parisarkhyā indicates the system of torture by exposing a culprit to the fire ordeal in order to extract the true confessions of a crime. 'fai :" indicates the absence of strangulation among themselves in case of subjects and by suggestion it can imply the absence of impalement on the stake by way of capital punishment.get
: "refers to the exclusion of dragging of feet in case of those who committed theft and took to their heels. 'शारीणामक्षप्रसरणदोषेणपरस्पर fimplies the exclusion of incarceration, belabourment and death sentence in lieu of the mutual faults committed during the game of dice.
1. Paramāras p. 231.
2. TM. Vol. III pp. 260-261. Apart from this
iRqAPRIKEqyy: ageafufaren
feta: TM Vol. II p. 192. refers to taxes paid by the kings of different islands. 3. आज्ञेवान्यायं न्यवेदयद् धर्मो धर्मस्थेयाः ।
4. कुमारस्यैवाय प्रमादो यदीदृशेऽप्यपराधे नैनमन्यायकारिणं करचरणकल्पनेनवा स्वदेशनिवसिनेन वा रासमसगारोपणेन
वान्येन वा धर्मशास्त्र प्रणीततनीतिना निग्रहेण विनय ग्राहयति । TM Vol. II p. 248.
5. Ibid. Vol. I p. 68.
6. Ibid. Vol. I p. 68.
7. Ibid. Vol. I p. 68.
