A History of the Mahrattas v1.c17.11

v1.c17.11

² [The institutes of Manu—' the moral text-book of the orthodox Hindu'—declare that to slay a Brahman is a mortal sin; whoever threatens a Brahman with physical violence will wander for a hundred years in Hell; the man who seizes his property will feed in another world on the leavings of vultures. (Risley, People of India, p. 147.)]