Theory of Government in Ancient India (Post-Vedic) c8.s1.27

c8.s1.27

The code of Kautalya is disfigured by caste favouritism. The dignity of man as man is violated. To the several instances already cited may be added another. A Śūdra lost the limb with which he assaulted a Brāhmaṇa but the reverse did not hold. The amount of fines and the severity of other punishments, were partly determined by considerations of rank.²