Grihya Sutras

SR No.: 007685
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hermann Oldenberg
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1886
Total Pages: 2642
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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BRIHASPATI.
II, 8.
agreements; the law between wife and husband; theft; the law of inheritance; and gambling with
dice.
8. These are the fourteen titles of law that originate in (demands regarding) wealth. There are again various subdivisions of them, owing to the diversity of lawsuits.
9. The two kinds of insult; violence; and criminal connexion with the wife of another man: these have been declared by Brihaspati to be the four titles of law originating in injury.
10. Each of them embraces again several different kinds, according as they are of a superior, middling, or of the lowest description. Thus are those four subdivided each in its turn.
11. Those who understand the eighteen titles of law, as proclaimed in the law-books, to be at the root of all lawsuits, are intelligent men indeed.
12. No sentence should be passed merely according to the letter of the law. If a decision is arrived at without considering the circumstances of the case, violation of justice will be the result.
13. The issue of a lawsuit may convert a thief into an honest man, and an honourable man into an
mas tatha | strípumsayogah steyam ka dayabhagoskshadevanam il evam arthasamutthâni padâni tu katurdasa | punar eva prabhinnäni kriyâbhedâd anekadha Il pârushye dve sâhasas ka parastrîsamgrahas tatha I himsodbhavapadâny evam katváry âha brihaspatih II
10, 11, Smritik. hînamadhyottamatvena prabhinnâni prithak prithak I visesha eshâm nirdishtas katurnam apy anukramât il padâny ashtâdasaitâni dharmasastroditâni tu malam sarvavivâdanâm ye vidus te parîkshakâh il
12-14. Vîram. p. 18. See Narada I, I, 42, 71 (above, pp. 16, 23). For the story of Mandavya, who was falsely charged with theft, see ibid. p. 16, note.
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