The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c10.s8.5

c10.s8.5

The crimes such as burglary, robbery, adultery etc., as well as punishments like flogging, bastinado, bludgeoning, mutilation of hands and feet, tortures of the saucepan, boiling oil, etc., come in for treatment in the *Mahāduk-* *khakkhandha Sutta* of the *Majjhima Nikāya*. The pretentions of the Brāhmaṇas to social superiority and other caste questions are discussed in the *Assalāyana Sutta*, the *Chanki Sutta*, the *Esukari Sutta* and the *Vaseṭṭha Sutta* of the same *Nikāya*. The teachings on unity and concord are to be found in the *Samāgama Sutta*.¹⁷