Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c4.t7.2
Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c4.t7.2
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c4.t7.2
We have noted above the nature of some of the cases and offences that came up for trial and the punishments awarded therein. It is not always possible to connect offences and punishments. Drinking is sometimes punished with heavy fines.⁵ Some wine-merchants, accused of poison-making, are once ordered to be executed by the king.⁶ Slander was punished with a fine of 8 kahāpaṇas.⁷ Adultery in woman (that in man is never referred to as something punishable) was punishable with "death, imprisonment, mutilation or even cleaving asunder."⁸