[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930) › v2.c22.17 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c22.17 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c22.17 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c22.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c22.17) Manu (VIII. 415) speaks of seven kinds of dāsas, viz. one captured in battle, one who becomes so for food (i. e. in scarcity or in a famine), one born in the house (i. e. of a female slave), one bought, one given (by his parents or relatives), one inherited (as part of the patrimony), one who becomes so for paying off a fine or judicial decree. He states the general rule⁴²⁹ that the wife, the son and the slave have no wealth and whatever they earn belongs to him whose wife, son or slave they are. Manu prescribes a fine of 600 paṇas for a brāhmaṇa making a member of the \*dvijāti\* castes after his upanayana a slave against his will. - [Previous: v2.c22.16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c22.16) - [Next: v2.c22.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c22.18) - [Up: v2.c22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c22) ## Cites (1) - [Mānava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.8.415) — Manu & Bhṛgu, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c22.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c22.17) · Pramāṇa