History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c75.796

v5.c75.796

Punishment, and expiation for certain acts are the same 31, 72, based on considerations of the castes of the offender and the person aggrieved had ceased to be operative by about 12th century A.D 82, by king with a fine of the first or second kind can offenders allow to associate with other members of the society, but not those awarded the highest fine 67, 76, by king was deemed in some cases to have purged a man of sin 73, depended on the caste of offender and person aggrieved acc to smṛtis 81, for incest viz excision of testicles and death was for non-brāhmaṇa offenders 72, for many acts was light in India as compared with western countries probably owing to the liability of the perpetrator to undergo expiation 68, of brāhmaṇas guilty of one of the first four mahāpātakas 72, of persons other than brāhmaṇas guilty of the first four mahāpātakas 72, some acts not liable to be punished by the king or State made the authors liable to prāyaścitta 68; some acts punishable by the king entailed no prāyaścitta 69