[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) › c9.87 # Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c9.87 Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c9.87 - **Language:** English ### [c9.87](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c9.87) At the time of Dubois¹ in Mysore almost only high treason was punished by death, otherwise only fines were imposed which sometimes amounted to the confiscation of the whole property. In Nepal the death sentence is or, was given for murdereing the father, elder brother, teacher, wife, a child or a cow and according to another source for every kind of murder without any distinction of person, as well as for high treason, incest, adultery or sexual intercourse of a man of low caste with a high caste woman—particularly a Brahman woman—poisoning and arson. Yet however the Brahman is not executed but only banished after the confiscation of his property and various insults; as for instance his hair is shaved and his sacred thread is torn away²; for Alberuni's statements on this point see §§ 36,39. In the Mṛcch. 154 the judge following M. (perhaps M. 9,241) advises the king not to have the Brahman Cārudatta, who was convicted of murder, executed for the crime but only to banish him but without confiscating his property. - [Previous: c9.86](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c9.86) - [Next: c9.88](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c9.88) - [Up: c9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c9) ## Linked texts (2) - [Mānava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.9.241) — Manu & Bhṛgu, Sanskrit - [Mṛcchakaṭika](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.prakarana.mrcchakatika) — Śūdraka, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c9.87](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c9.87) · Pramāṇa