अध्याय 174 / 176

Adhyaya 174

श्रेष्ठ पलसहस्रेण तदर्धेन तु मध्यमम्॥ २ पल सुवर्णका उत्तम, पाच सौ. प्लका म्रध्यम्र औँ षोडशारं ततश्चक्रं भ्रमन्नेम्यष्टकावृतम्। नाभिपद्ये स्थितं विष्णुं योगारूढं चतुर्भुजम् शङ्खचक्रेऽस्य पार्श्व तु देव्यष्टकसमावृतम्। द्वितीयावरणे तद्दत् पूर्वतो जलशायिनम्

English

OBAPTBR aoxlvn. cular person should be fined 600 Panes. One who demands more money than agreed upon and promised at the time of a girl's marriage should be fined twice the sum agreed upon. This is the rule of Dliarmarf&strs. A man who after paying earnest money for a thing does not purchase it should be fined 540 Panes (Madh3-am Danda) and the king should mgke him return the earnest money. One who 'after accepting his fee steals the milk of a cow under his charge or does not properly look after it should be fined 100 mfi-sas of gold and he should also be tied in iron chains and made to work in fetters. — 14-22. Notr.— qnf=A Coin equal in value to 80 cowries. The prison should be erected out of a city, it should be 100 Dhanu§a wide and in big towns, the prison should be twice or thrice the above dimensions. Those prisons should be circled by a wall so high as a camel may not look into them. — 23-25. And no inlet for a dog or a swine should be left in the wall. If an animal gets into a field without any inclosiire, and eats some of the grass etc., stocked there, then the man in charge of such tresspassing cattle should not bo punished. Maim has laid down in his code that if a cow that has calved only ten days ago or a bull set free at the time of Sraddha consecrated to the Deity eats away corns of a field, though enclosed, the keeper of such animals should not be punished. Other cattle besides them, if found grazing in the fields of others, should however be punished by a line ten times the damage done, being levied from the owner of the cattle, and if the above crime be done wilfully, twice the above fine should be levied.— 26-28. If a Kbatriya's fields be harmed by a VaisiVs cattle the former should be compensated by the latter ten times the damage done. One who usurps any one's house, tank, forest, garden and fields should be fined 500 Panas. One who does so unknowingly should be fined 200 Panas. One wlio annihilates the boundary mark at the time of its laying it out, or one who gives a wrong advice or is a councillor of liars should be deprived of his tongue or should be fined 1,080 Panas. This is wliat Manu has enjoined.— 29-33. If Brahraanas, Ksatriyas and Vaisyas do a thing contrary to their prescribed orders they should be made to perform the usual purificatory rites. A woman if she kills any 43ody should keep up the SudrahatyS ordinance. — 34. iVotc.— ordinance observed to purify oneself from the sin of h&ving killed a Sudra. If a BrAhmana cannot afford to spend as much as required for the performance of a purificatory rite in killing serpents he should keep up Krichhravrata for the purificatiou thereof. — 35. Kote, — ordinance causing bodily mortification. A twice-born is purified by chanting one hundred Vedic hymns if be cuts a fruit-bearing tree or flower creepers. — 36. The sin of killing a thousand beings having bones is similar to that of killing a crore of boneless insects such as mosquitoes, lice, etc. ut THE MAT8YA PURAUAM. To purify himself of such a sin one should observe the udrahaty& ordinance and should also make some gift to a Bnihinaua in case of killing animals having bones. One becomes purified of the siu of killing boneless insects, etc., merely by rranfiyama. — 37-38. The sin of killing the worms existing in grains, molasses and fruits and flowers is purified by eating clarrified butior. — 39, By cutting the medicinal herbs of a jungle without any necessity one commits a sin of which ho is purified l)y living on milk for a day. — 40. Such sins are cleansed b}'' the observance of the ordinances mentioned above, now the ordinances wliich ought to bo observed by a thief will be enumerated. — 41. By observing the Ardhakriolilira ordinance a Brahniana liocomes purified of the sin of having committed a thoft of corn, money, etc., in the house of another of his own caste. — 42. By observing ChandrAyana onp is purified of tlie sin ol liaving taken a woman, house, well, tank, etc., belonging to another.- 43 A man who steals trifles is purifietl by the observance of Sarpvapana Krichhra ordinance. — 44. The stealing of eatables, conveyance, bedstead, flowers, berries, and fruits is purified l)y drinking Pamcliagn\ ya.— 45. One who steals liay, wood, tro(', diicd corn, molasses, cloth, hVlo, fish and flesh becomes purified by ke(*ping a fast for three days.— 4()-47. One who steals peails, gems, IVubala, copj)er, silver, iron, KArpsya and stones becomes purilied if one ears Ibi* l\\clv(' days tl)o jofuse of rice. A thief of cotton, silk, animals of l)iccted hoofs, horses, birds, scents, medicines, rope, becomes puri(!c(l b\ living oji milk for ibree days. — 48. The ordinance iiionti(»noi alx»ve purify the twice-born on(Sf)f the sin of committing a theft, now tiie or<iiiiance.s for the purification of illict connections ivill be enumerated. — 49. One who is guilty of an illiou cointce.tifm witli his preceptor's wife should observe the ordinance ]»reBcribed for tin* sin of committing adultery with a lady of one's own ('oiumunity. For the purification from the sin of having an illicit conne(»iion with one's mother's maid, sou's wdfe, virgin, Chandfili, futhor's-sister's daughter, sister, mother, molhcr's-sister's daughter and rightcoirs lady, or l)rother's respected wife, Cliandrayana ordinace should be kept up. — 50 51. A wise man should not indulge with the above mentioned class of ladies nor should he marry one/s relation, a fallen woman, a woman in menses. He sliould also abstain from unnatural ofTence and indulging with lower animals. One who does so should keep up KrieblirasantajDana penance to purify himself of the sin. If one discharges one's semen in water, one is to perforin Krichlirasantapana vrata."-52>53. One who looks at a sexual intercourso or makes discharge in course of the day is purilied by bathing with his clothes on. — 54. A Brfdimana who indulges wdtli a Clhaudrda woman* or a woman of a different caste or eats their food or accepts a gift from them unknowinglj GR AFTER GGXXVIL falls from Iiis position. If he does so knowingly he becomes of that caste himself. — 55. A woman defiled by a Brahmana should be kept confined in the house by her husband and so should a woman be kept up who desires for another man. — 50. If even then she remains the same she should be made to keep up Krichhrasantapana ordinance which purifies her. — 57. A twice-born should have only one meal a day and turn the sacred Gayatri on his beads for full tln*ee years to i)urify himself of the sin of having indulged with a girl of twelve years in whom menstruation has not commenced (or a barren woman) for a night. These ordinances purify one for having illicit connections now the ordinances prescribed for those wlio associate with the fallen will be mentioned. — 58-59. A man who associates with a fallen lot for a year also becomes the same. One becomes fallen even by helping them in the performance of sacrifices, by teacliing them, by making them his relation, by interdining w'ith them. A man becomes i)iu*ified of it by the ordinance prescribed for it. But he will remain like a Preta. — CO 01. A fallen person should be taken outside the village limits by his brethren and made to drink the water of the inaid*s house. If a fallen man dies the sin tliat devolves thereby lasts for a whole da 3 and night. One should not talk to a fallen man, nor should one sit on his seat. Ho should only get enough for his sustenance. On the evening of an inauspicious day, the near kinsmen of the fallen man would perform before the Ouru his Udaka Kriya. His maid then would throw in the south-west corner one pitcher full of water. His friends are to fast thef whole day and night and tliey would not accept the Aaucha of that Preta. The friends of the fallen man should not address liim or sit with him or travel witli him. Nor should they express that he is their near relative. This is the social rule. Tie should only get enough for his sustenance, lie should not bo made to entitle himself to his share as an elder brother in spite of liis being senior, but the bigge.st share should go to the most dcserviug among the remaining ones. — 62-65. One who injures the prestige of a man should be fined Prathama Sahasa (270 Panas).— 66. A Ksatriyii who abuses a Brnl)inana should be fined 100 Panas, a Vaisiya doing so should be fined 260 Panas, and a Sfidra if he does so should be sentenced to capital punisliment. — 67. A Brahmana who abuses a Ksatriya should be fined 50 Panas, if he absuses a Vai*iya, he should be fined 25 Panas and if ho abuses a Sfidra the fine should be 12 Panas. — 68. A VaitJya abusing a Ksatriya should be fined Prathama SAhasa; if a Jfidra abuses a Ksatriya his penalty should be that his tongue would be severed. — 70. If a Ksatriya abuses a Vaiiy.aho would be fined 50 Panas; and if lie abuses a udra, he should be lined 25 Panas. If a tundra abuses . THE MAT8YA PURAKAM. Vairfya he should be fined 1080 Panas (Uttama S&l asa), but a Vairfya abusing a oudra should be fined only 50 Panas. — 71. People abusing men of their own community should be fined only 12 Panas and those who indulge in most foul abuse should be fined twice the amount prescribed. —72. A udra should be deprived of his tongue if Ik abuses violently a twice-born, if his offence be moderate; if his offence bo highest, he is to be fined Uttama Sahasa. — 73. A king should put a red, hot iron si)ike twelve Angulas long in the mouth of a iudra who vilifies violently one, taking his name, caste and house. — 74. A Sudra who teaches Dharma to tlie twice-born should also be punished by a sovereign by getting hot oil poured into liis ears and mouth. The person who speaks a lie with regard to his country, caste, Veda and corporeal duties should be fined 2,160 Panas (twice the Uttama S&hasa). — 76. A sinner who abuses a high class man ought to be fined 1080 Panas (Uttama S«ahasa) one who violates the ordinance of a king should pay double the amount of fine for lie is really a man who tries to upset the determination of the king. — 77-78. If a man wlio abuses another and then says tliat he did so in a joke, through love or intoxication and would never do so again, should be fined only half of the amount codified. — 79. The man who speaks ill towards the one-eyed, the blind, the bald-headed, and the crippled by addressing ihein as such should be fined one tola of silver (Karsapana Uanda. 80. One who uses harsh words towards his preceptor, motlier, father, elder brother, father-in-law and does not make room for his preceptor should be fined 100 Panas (hundred Karsa panas). -'-81. One who does not make room for another sageliko person oilier than his preceptor should be fined one ratti of silver (one Xri.Nnala). — 82. A king should get that limb of a udra severed from his body which he uses in cau.sing pain to the twice-born. — 83. The lips of the man who haughtily spits on another should be cut down. One who mischievously mak(,*s water facing another should be de- prived of his organ, and similarly tlio hind part of the man should be dealt with who maliciously makes wind in the face of another. — 84. The lips of a low class man occupying the seat of a liigh class man should be chopped off witii a mark sealed on his hip. — 85. The hands of the one who extends them to catch hold of the hair, feet, nose, neck, scrotum of a high class man should be lopped off by a king. — 86. The one who makes another bleed by his blows should be fined 100 Panas, and the one who pricks into the others flesh should he fined 24 OHAPTER GCXXVIL lol.'H of gold or silver according to the seriousness of the offence. The one who breaks anyone's bone should be exiled from the country. — 87. The king should get that limb of one's body annihilated by which he breaks another's bone; he should also be fined as much as wotdd be neccssai'y for the aggrieved person to spend in getting himself released from the court. — 88. One leg of the man who kills a cow, goat, elephant and camel should be chopped off. The man who kills small animals, and deer should be fined twice Damas; and the man who kills insects and worms should be fined one rnasd of silver and the owner of the animals should be paid his price. — 89-90. One who fells his master's or other's.tree should be fined gold pieces and double the fine should be imposed on thr)se who cut a tree near a tank, a thoroughfare or a boundary line. — 91-92.

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