Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c11.34

c11.34

Medical Regulations. There were also rules regulating medical practice in the land. Dangerous diseases were always to be reported. Physicians were fined if the patient died of disease that was not previously reported. Error of treatment (*karmāparādhena*) causing death (*vipatti*) was more heavily punished. A surgeon was to lose the limb which he causes a patient to lose by his wrong operation (*marmavedha-vaiguṇya-karaṇe marmaṇi śastrakriyā anyathā-karaṇe daṇḍapārushyaṁ vidyāt bhishakkriyā-dosheṇa rogiṇo yad aṅgam upahataṁ tad bhishaja uphanyāt*) [IV. 1].