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Kautilya's Arthashastra 3.17.16

Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra 3.17.16

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Sanskrit

3.17.16

prajānāṃ doṣabāhulyād rājñāṃ vā bhāvadoṣataḥ /
rūpavyājyāv adharmiṣṭhe dharmyā tu prakṛtiḥ smṛtā //E

In all kinds of fines below a hundred panas, the king shall take in addition to the fine 8 per cent more as rúpa and in fines above hundred, five per cent more; these two kinds of exaction, are just inasmuch as the people are full of sins on the one hand, and kings are naturally misguided on the other.

R. Shamasastry 1915, Kautilya's Arthaśāstra

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