[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896) › c8.71 # Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c8.71 Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c8.71 - **Language:** English ### [c8.71](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c8.71) Usury condemned. On the other hand, similarly from a religious standpoint, the trade of a money-lender and particularly of the usurer (vārdhuṣin) is regarded as immoral. Even in the extremity of distress a Brahman should not practise usury (Nār. 1,111); the usurer is placed on the same footing as the thief (Y. 1,132) and in a future existence he is reborn as an epileptic (Vi. 45, 26). - [Previous: c8.70](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c8.70) - [Next: c8.72](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c8.72) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c8) ## Cites (3) - [Vaiṣṇava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.visnu.45.26) — Viṣṇu, Sanskrit - [Yājñavalkyasmṛti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.yajnavalkya.1.132) — Yājñavalkya, Sanskrit - [Nāradasmṛti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.narada) — Nārada, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c8.71](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c8.71) · Pramāṇa