History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.480.3

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388 verses 9-10) speaks of fourteen places of punishment adding the neck, the thumb and index, the forehead, the lips, the hind part, hips, one half of the feet (to Manu's ten) and omitting wealth and the whole body therefrom. Gaut. XII. 43, Kauṭ. IV. 8, Manu (VIII. 125, 380-381), Yāj. II. 270, Nār. (sāhasa, 9-10), Viṣṇu V. 1-8, Bṛ. (SBE. vol. 33 p. 388 verse 11), Vṛddha-Hārīta VII. 191 prescribe that a brāhmaṇa was not to be sentenced to death or corporal punishment for any offence whatever, but if he were guilty of an offence deserving the death penalty, he was to be punished by ordering his entire head to be shaved, he might be banished from the country (from the city acc. to Nār.), a mark appropriate to the grave sin committed by him might be branded on his forehead and he might be paraded on an ass.⁶³¹ Yama,⁶³² quoted by Sm. C. and V. P., while providing that a brāhmaṇa was to be free from undergoing corporal punishment, allows the king to keep a brāhmaṇa offender in confinement in a secret place and give him bare maintenance or the king may make him do the work of guarding cattle for a month or a fortnight or make him perform other work not fit for a decent brāhmaṇa. The Mit. on Yāj. II. 270 explains that the mark of female private parts for violating *guru's* bed, of a tavern for drinking the liquor called *surā*, a dog's foot for theft, of a headless corpse for brāhmaṇa murder (as laid down by Manu IX. 237 and 240, Viṣṇu Dh. S. V.