Public Administration in Ancient India c19.48

c19.48

² According to Gautama, the following persons should not be killed in war : those who have lost their horses, charioteers, or arms; those who join their hands (in supplication); those who flee with flying hair; those that sit down with averted faces; those who have climbed (in flight) on eminences or trees; those who act as messengers, and those who declare themselves cows and Brāhmanas. X. 18.