Local Government in Ancient India c13.55

c13.55

(*b*) Incorrigible sinners and their relations, however remote. These sinners comprise those against whom are recorded ‘the first four of the five great sins’, viz. (1) killing a Brāhmaṇa; (2) drinking intoxicating liquors; (3) theft; (4) adultery with the wife of one’s spiritual teacher: and (5) associating with any one guilty of these crimes (*Manu*, XI. 55). The relations comprise those enumerated above.