[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930) › v5.c75.950 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c75.950 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c75.950 - **Language:** English ### [v5.c75.950](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v5.c75.950) Sins, are removed not by prāyaścitta alone but also by confession to others, gifts, meditation on God 50; bodily sins 173; difference in punishments or expiation based on intention or absence of it or on repetition 17; divergence among sūtras as to classification of 12; five classes of, acc. to Kātyāyana 14, f. c. enumerated in Chāndogya Upaniṣad 12,16; homas and mantras may purify a man from sins that have not become public 125; many s. are punishable by the king as crimes, though penances are provided for them 65; mental sins 173; nine classes of, acc. to Viṣṇu Dh. S 15, redemption of, by monetary payments or bequests of property to churches in Christian belief 52n; supposed to be centred in the hair 122, 574; three classes of, acc to Baud. Dh. S. 13; three classes of, acc to Manu 173, three kinds of viz. bodily, in words and mental 173; classes of, acc to Āp. Dh. S. 12, two kinds of, viz. intentionally committed and unintentionally committed 61; unintentionally committed s. are destroyed by repeating Vedic texts 63; views differed as to whether all sins committed in past lives are destroyed by entering Kāśī or whether only those of the present life 638; vocal sins 173; which diseases arise as the results of which sins 173 - [Previous: v5.c75.949](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v5.c75.949) - [Next: v5.c75.951](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v5.c75.951) - [Up: v5.c75](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v5.c75) ## Cites (6) - [Vaiṣṇava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.visnu) — Viṣṇu, Sanskrit - [Mānava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu) — Manu & Bhṛgu, Sanskrit - [Baudhāyanadharmasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.dharma.baudhayana) — Baudhāyana, Sanskrit - [Āpastambadharmasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.dharma.apastamba) — Āpastamba, Sanskrit - [Kātyāyanasmṛti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.uddhrta.katyayana) — Kātyāyana (smṛtikāra), Sanskrit - [Chāndogyopaniṣad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.chandogya) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v5.c75.950](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v5.c75.950) · Pramāṇa