History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.492.5

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4), when a person abused the king (Nār., pāruṣya 30), when a person repeatedly proclaimed what was disliked by the king or divulged the secret policy of the king (Yāj. II. 302). Excision of the male organ was prescribed for a śūdra who sexually approached a woman of the three higher varṇas (Gaut. XII. 2), for any one guilty of the rape of another's wife (Vṛddha-Hārīta VII. 201 and also confiscation of all property), for any one guilty of incest or intercourse with mother, mother's sister, paternal aunt, sister, the wife of an uncle, friend or pupil, daughter, daughter-in-law, teacher's wife, a woman come for refuge, the queen, an ascetic woman, a wet-nurse and any chaste woman or a woman of a higher varṇa (Nār., strīpuṁsayoga 73-75). The nose, the ears and the hands were cut off in the case of an offender guilty of selling false gold or forbidden flesh such as that of a dog (Yāj. II. 297). For branding, vide Gaut. XII. 44, Baud. Dh. S. I. 10. 19, Nār. (sāhasa 10), Manu XI. 237 (= Matsya 227. 16), Viṣṇu Dh. S. V. 3-7. The Daṇḍaviveka (p. 47) states that branding was to be resorted to if the proper penance was not performed and if the offence was intentional. Yāj. II. 202 provides branding for a gambler using false dice and (II. 294) for persons of the three higher *varṇas* having intercourse with a very low caste woman and Dakṣa VII. 33 prescribes it for an ascetic giving up his duties. The Rājatarangiṇī mentions (VI. 108-112) that king Yaśaskara (939-948 A.