History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c71.s1.466
History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c71.s1.466
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295a There was a parallel to this method of pratyāmnāya in Europe as remarked by Gibbon 'A year of penance was appreciated at 26 *solidi* of silver, about four pounds sterling, for the rich, at 3 *solidi* or nine shillings for the indigent; and these alms were soon appropriated to the Church which derived from the redemption of sins an inexhaustible source of opulence and dominion' Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol VII. p. 187 (Smith's ed. of 1862).