Vaishnava Dharmashastra 8.2
Vaiṣṇava Dharmaśāstra 8.2
- Language
- Sanskrit
8.2
na rājaśrotriyapravrajitakitavataskaraparādhīnastrībālasāhasikātivṛddhamattonmatābhiśastapatitakṣuttṛṣṇārtavyasanirāgāndhāḥ ||
The king cannot be (made a witness); nor a learned Brâhmana; nor an ascetic; nor a gamester; nor a thief; nor a person not his own master; nor a woman; nor a child; nor a perpetrator of the acts called sâhasa (violence); nor one over-aged (or more than eighty years old); nor one intoxicated or insane; nor a man of bad fame; nor an outcast; nor one tormented by hunger or thirst; nor one oppressed by a (sudden) calamity (such as the death of his father or the like), or wholly absorbed in evil passions;
Translations (1)
- The Institutes of Vishnu — Julius Jolly 1880, English
Commentaries (2)
- Vaijayantī — Nandapaṇḍita alias Vināyakapaṇḍita 1598, Sanskrit
- Keśavavaijayantī — Nandapaṇḍita, Sanskrit
Linked texts (2)
- History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) — P. V. Kane, English
- Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) — B. A. Saletore, English