[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.c43.57 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c43.57 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c43.57 - **Language:** English ### [v3.c43.57](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c43.57) Certain things were forbidden to be accepted as gifts. The gift of animals with two rows of teeth was forbidden by śruti (vide Śabara on Jaimini VI. 7. 4 quoted above). Vas. Dh. S. 13. 55 declares that a brāhmaṇa should not accept the gift of weapons, poisonous substances and spirituous liquor. Manu IV. 188 states that a brāhmaṇa who is not learned should not accept the gift of gold, land, horses, cow, food, garment, sesame, clarified butter; but if he accepts he is reduced to ashes (i. e. perishes) like wood. Hemādri (Dāna p. 57) quotes the Brahma-purāṇa that a brāhmaṇa should not accept the gifts of ewes, horses, precious stones, an elephant, sesame and iron, and that one who accepts a gift of antelope skin or sesame would not be born again as a male and that if a person accepts the bedstead, ornaments and the clothes of one who is dead he would go to hell. - [Previous: v3.c43.56](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c43.56) - [Next: v3.c43.58](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c43.58) - [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.4.188) — Manu & Bhṛgu, Sanskrit - [Brahmapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.brahma) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Vasiṣṭhadharmasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.dharma.vasistha) — Vasiṣṭha, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c43.57](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c43.57) · Pramāṇa