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Hence dice play could make a person undergo imprisonment, physical torture and even death sentence.
Self-immolation was a sin liable to punishment in so far as Bandhusundari calls Malayasundarī as "499ffo'l a sinful one. It is also called a temerity lacking the appreciation of any sane mind.
'तेनास्थानविहितात्म वधसाहस त्रपाविलक्षविक्षिप्तक्षणाम्। It is equally shameful for one who commits it. The methods of committing suicide as described by Dhanapāla, are
the application of a weapon, taking of poison, strangulation by hanging by a noose on the branches of a tree, abstinence from food etc.
Malayasundari has been shown immolating herself by plunging into the ocean strangling herself by a noose, taking of kimpāka fruit (poison) etc. while Harivāhana is saved from a fall from a precipice by Anangarati, the youth (37 YY178) who himself going to have a fall from the same precipice. "Grāmapati" and "Thakkura' were the two persons who held some importance in the administration of the villages. Grāmapati was probably the village-headman and Thakkura was a rich landlord on whom the villagers could depend for financial government of the affairs of the villages.
"आढ्यनैगम'" or the rich Corporations have been referred to as abounding in horses and mules that formed the caravan meant to move on for conducting the business administration of the state as well as the local bodies.
Beyond this we do not find any information regarding the data connected with the state administration and practical politics.
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ar vifani gjafai TM Sm. ed. p. 327.
1. TM. Sm. ed. p. 308. 2. Ibid. Sm. ed. p. 328. 3. preto ar fad arguage 4. Ibid. Sm. ed. p. 397. 5. Ibid. Vol. II p. 260. 6. Ibid.
