[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) › v3.c40.145 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c40.145 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c40.145 - **Language:** English ### [v3.c40.145](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c40.145) Manu (VII. 47-52) enumerates in the case of kings ten vices springing from love of pleasure and eight vices produced by wrath and then states that among vices due to love of pleasure drinking, dice, women and hunting are the worst and that drinking is the most pernicious of all the vices of kings. Kauṭilya VIII. 3 agrees with this. Gaut. XII. 38 and Yāj. II. 47 declare that though sons and grandsons are bound to repay their ancestors' debt as a pious duty, they are not bound to pay debts incurred for liquors, gambling &c. Among the articles that a brāhmaṇa is forbidden to sell even when he is forced to take to trade as a means of livelihood is liquor (Manu X. 89 and Yāj. III. 37). - [Previous: v3.c40.144](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c40.144) - [Next: v3.c40.146](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c40.146) - [Up: v3.c40](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c40) ## Cites (4) - [Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.artha.kautilya.8.3) — Kauṭilya, Sanskrit - [Mānava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.7.47) — Manu & Bhṛgu, Sanskrit - [Yājñavalkyasmṛti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.yajnavalkya.2.47) — Yājñavalkya, Sanskrit - [Gautamadharmasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.dharma.gautama.12.38) — Gautama (dharmasūtrakāra), Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c40.145](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c40.145) · Pramāṇa