A History of Agriculture in India v1.c29.s10: Social Security
A History of Agriculture in India v1.c29.s10
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Social Security
v1.c29.s10.1
The king provided social security for the aged, infirm and minors, etc. The *Arthashastra* states,
v1.c29.s10.2
‘The king shall provide the orphans, the aged, the infirm, the afflicted, and the helpless with maintenance. He shall also provide subsistence to helpless women when they are pregnant and also to the children they give birth to.
v1.c29.s10.3
Elders among the villagers shall improve the property of bereaved minors till the latter attain their age; so also the property of gods.
v1.c29.s10.4
When a capable person other than an apostate or mother neglects to maintain his or her child, wife, mother, father, minor brothers, sisters, or widowed girls, he or she shall be punished with a fine of twelve panas.
v1.c29.s10.5
When, without making provision for the maintenance of his wife and sons, any person embraces asceticism, he shall be punished with the first amercement; likewise any person who converts a woman to asceticism.
v1.c29.s10.6
Whoever has passed the age of copulation may become an ascetic after distributing the properties of his own acquisition among his sons, otherwise he will be punished.’
Cites (1)
- Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra — Kauṭilya, Sanskrit