[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.c63.331 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.331 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.331 - **Language:** English ### [v4.c63.331](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v4.c63.331) Yāj. II. 82 provides that if a witness, having promised with other witnesses to depose to a state of things, denies at the time of his examination that he saw the matter in dispute, he should be fined eight times the amount that a defeated litigant would have to pay and a brāhmaṇa witness similarly guilty if unable to pay may be banished (or his house should be razed to the ground). Nār. IV. 197 says that such a person is worse than a false witness. Manu VIII. 107, Yāj. II. 76, and Kāt. (405) prescribe that if a person who has witnessed a transaction does not depose (i. e. remains silent) about it, though not suffering from disease or some other calamity, he should be made (after waiting for three fortnights) to pay the amount of the debt or other matter in dispute and also one-tenth thereof as fine to the king. - [Previous: v4.c63.330](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v4.c63.330) - [Next: v4.c63.332](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v4.c63.332) - [Up: v4.c63](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v4.c63) ## Linked texts (4) - [Mānava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.8.107) — Manu & Bhṛgu, Sanskrit - [Yājñavalkyasmṛti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.yajnavalkya.2.82) — Yājñavalkya, Sanskrit - [Kātyāyanasmṛti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.uddhrta.katyayana) — Kātyāyana (smṛtikāra), Sanskrit - [Nāradasmṛti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.narada) — Nārada, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v4.c63.331](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v4.c63.331) · Pramāṇa