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Vaishnava Dharmashastra 8.2

Vaiṣṇava Dharmaśāstra 8.2

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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;

Julius Jolly 1880, The Institutes of Vishnu

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