History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.467
History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.467
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⁶¹⁷ Vide Deut. XIX. 21, Lev, XXIV. 20 for the ancient Hebrew Code (eye for eye &c.), the code of Hammurabi (about 2200 B. C.) in Babylon and the law of the Twelve Tables in Rome. In the 8th Table in Ortolan's 'History of Roman Law' (tr. by Pritchard and Nasmyth, 1871) p. 114 the 2nd provision is: 'retaliation against him who breaks the limb of another and does not offer compensation'. In Hammurabi's Code (text tr. by C. H. W. Johns, 1903) sections 196 and 200 are: 'If a man has caused the loss of a gentleman's eye, his eye one shall cause to be lost. If a man has made the tooth of a man that is his equal to fall, one shall make his tooth to fall out'.