[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.c43.102 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c43.102 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c43.102 - **Language:** English ### [v3.c43.102](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c43.102) On account of the great value attached to copper-plate grants as documents of title, there were great temptations to forge them. In the Madhuban copper-plate of Harṣa (E. I. vol. VII. p. 155 at p. 158) reference is made to a grant fabricated by a certain brāhmaṇa named Vāmarathya about a village called Somakuṇḍakā. Manu IX. 232 prescribes death as the penalty for fabricators of royal charters. Vide Fleet on 'Spurious Indian Records' in I. A. vol. 30, p. 201. - [Previous: v3.c43.101](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c43.101) - [Next: v3.c43.103](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c43.103) - [Up: v3.c43](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c43) ## Cites (3) - [Mānava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.9.232) — Manu & Bhṛgu, Sanskrit - [Indian Antiquary](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.epigraphy.corpora.ia) - [Arulala-Perumal inscription of Saka-Samvat 1127](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.epigraphy.south.nellore-coda.arulala-perumal-inscription-of-saka-samvat-1127) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c43.102](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c43.102) · Pramāṇa