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Matsya Purana 227.211

Matsyapurāṇa 227.211

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Sanskrit

227.211

yāvānavadhyasya vadhe tāvān vadhyasya rakṣaṇe.
adharmonṛpaterdṛṣṭastathā badhyasya mokṣaṇe .. 227.210 ..

The sin that a sovereign commits in taking the life of an innocent person is just the same as is accrued in protecting a man worthy of being condemned to death—213

A Taluqdar of Oudh 1916, The Matsya Puranam

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