The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c11.39

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c11.39

15. Criminal jurisdiction seems, according to the Jātakas, to be exclusively exercised by the king. That any person other than the king can pronounce a sentence of death seems to be nowhere mentioned in the Jātakas. Serious crimes, such as theft, adultery, bodily injury were punished by *rājāṇā*,² i.e., by the punishment inflicted by the king.

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