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Kautilya's Arthashastra 3.11.35

Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra 3.11.35

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Sanskrit

3.11.35

tatra brāhmaṇaṃ brūyāt "satyaṃ brūhi" iti //

Witness shall be taken before Bráhmans, vessels of water and fire. A Bráhman witness shall be told ‘Tell the truth’; a Kshatriya or a Vaisya witness shall be told thus:--‘If thou utterest falsehood, thou, do not attain the fruit of thy sacrificial and charitable deeds; but having broken the array of thy enemies in war, thou, do go a beggar with a skull in thy hand.’

R. Shamasastry 1915, Kautilya's Arthaśāstra

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