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Kautilya's Arthashastra 4.12.39

Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra 4.12.39

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Sanskrit

4.12.39

bhuñjīta striyam anyeṣāṃ yathāsaṃbhāṣitaṃ naraḥ /
na tu rājapratāpena pramuktāṃ svajanena vā //

Those women who have been rescued from the hands of thieves, from floods, in famine, or in national calamities, or who, having been abandoned, missed, or thrown out as if dead in forests, have been taken home may be enjoyed by the rescuer as agreed upon.

R. Shamasastry 1915, Kautilya's Arthaśāstra

But no such women as have been cast out under royal edict, or by their own kinsmen; nor such as belong to high caste, or do not like to be rescued, nor even those who have children shall be rescued either for ransom or for their person.

R. Shamasastry 1915, Kautilya's Arthaśāstra

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