Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c8.165

c8.165

The punishment of flogging, according to Āp. 2, 28, 2 f. is generally to be applied to a cowherd or a field labourer (kṛṣi-nāśa) who does not perform his duty. The wages of the field labourer or the ploughman (kṛṣivala) shall consist, like those of the cowherd, if no other agreement is made, of a portion of the profit (cf. Āp. 2, 28, 1). Thus according to Bṛh. 16, 11—13 he should receive 1/5 of the produce if he gets besides it also free living and quarters and 1/3 if he gets nothing else. Nār. 6, 3 and Y. 2, 194 speak only of 1/10; on the other hand the Ardhika or Ardhasīrin (M. 4, 253; Vi. 57, 16; Y. 1, 166) performed his service, as his name suggests, for half the proceeds of the crops.