[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) › v4.c63.20.4 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.20.4 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.20.4 - **Language:** English ### [v4.c63.20.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v4.c63.20.4) fines are provided for loss of weight (beyond the recognised standard) in the case of working up copper, lead, brass, bell-metal, tin into vessels and articles; for manufacturing a counterfeit coin, for accepting it or passing it off to another the fine was a thousand paṇas and for entering a counterfeit coin in the royal treasury the punishment was death; a physician, who undertook the medical treatment of a patient without informing (government officers) of the dangerous nature of the disease, was to be punished with the first amercement if the patient died and with the middling fine if the patient died through the carelessness of the physician and if the patient suffered some vital injury, the matter was to be dealt with as assault (daṇḍapāruṣya); musicians and actors shall stay in one place during the rainy season and shall avoid taking excessive gifts or indulging in excessive praise of one patron; for violating this rule the fine was twelve paṇas. The same rules apply to those who show dumb plays and to other mendicants, the latter receiving as many lashes as the fine imposed in similar cases on others. In IV. 2 Kauṭilya prescribes fines against merchants that use false measures, weights and balances; that sell timber, iron, jewels, ropes, clothes misrepresenting them as superior when they are inferior; that conspire to prevent the sale of merchandise; that cause adulteration of grains, oils, salt, medicines &c.; - [Previous: v4.c63.20.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v4.c63.20.3) - [Next: v4.c63.20.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v4.c63.20.5) - [Up: v4.c63.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v4.c63.20) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v4.c63.20.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v4.c63.20.4) · Pramāṇa