Hindu Administrative Institutions c10.s6.50

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⁴ Śānti Parvan, lxxxv. 22-23. Vide Beal, *Buddhist Records of Western World*, Bk. ii, pp. 83-4. That such punishments lost their severity from the age of Harṣa is evident. 'Treason was punished by imprisonment for life and not by any corporal punishment. For offences against the social morality and for disloyal and unfilial conduct, the punishment was either mutilation of limbs or deportation of the offender to another country or into the wilderness. Other offences can be atoned for by a money payment. Trial by ordeal was also in force.' Watters, i. 171-2; *Rulers of India, Harsha* by Dr. R. Mookerjee, p. 100.