Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c9.7

c9.7

Even this last expression shows that Vi.’s enumeration does not claim to be exhaustive and in fact still many more crimes may be collected from the parallel passages of other ancient authors, as for instance, sea voyage, medical practice, murder of husband, regicide and other important cases of murder, intentionally abandoning nearest relations, various cases of theft, etc. Further sins of commission and omission are seen particularly in the rules about penances (Vi. 50 ff. etc.), in the teachings about retaliation (karmavipāka) in which particularly the various forms of theft are discussed with lively symbolism (he who steals flesh is reborn as a vulture Vi. 44, 21 etc.), in the Snātakadharma (Vi. 71 etc.) and in the enumerations of those Brahmans who should not be invited to a Śrāddha (Vi. 82, etc.).