History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.492.6

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D.) of Kashmir branded on a brāhmaṇa's forehead the mark of dog's foot. Keśavapaṇḍita in his Daṇḍanīti-prakaraṇa (p. 6) quotes the author of the Vaijayantī (Nanda-paṇḍita) to the effect that the making of marks was to be effected with the juice of the marking nut in the case of brāhmaṇas and with a red-hot iron *śalākā* in the case of others. In England about a hundred years ago branding for desertion from the army was practised. Manu VIII. 370 prescribes the shaving of the head as a punishment for a woman who pollutes a maiden, Nār. (sāhasa 10) prescribes it for a brāhmaṇa who is not sentenced to death on account of his caste, Śaṅkha-Likhita (q. by Aparārka p. 807) for one who abuses officers, brāhmaṇas and elders. Megasthenes (Fragment XXVII. p. 72) notes 'If one is guilty of a very heinous offence the king orders his hair to be cropped, this being a punishment to the last degree infamous'. Imprisonment for life is prescribed by Viṣṇu V. 71 for striking out both eyes of a man and by Śukra IV. 1. 88 (for repeating an offence more than three times) For imprisonment with labour, vide Śukra IV. 1. 92 and 108-109. Flogging was prescribed⁶⁴³ by Vishnu Dh. S. V. 105 for a woman.