Sacred Laws of Aryas

SR No.: 007687
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Gorge Buhler
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1897
Total Pages: 1979
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 36 MB

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GAUTAMA.
XXII, 22.
22. Or he may also give something for (the destruction of) each animal that has bones.
23. For (killing) a eunuch (he shall give) a load of straw and a mâsha of lead;
24. For (killing) a boar, a pot of clarified butter; 25. For (killing) a snake, a bar of iron;
26. For (killing) an unchaste woman, who is merely in name a Brâhmani, a leather bag;
27. (For killing a woman who subsists) by harlotry, nothing at all.
28. For preventing that (a Brâhmana) obtains a wife, food, or money, (he must) in each case (remain chaste) during a year,
29. For adultery two years,
30. (For adultery with the wife) of a Srotriya three years.
31. And if he has received a present (from the woman), he shall throw it away,
32. Or restore it to the giver.
33. If he has employed Vedic texts for people (with whom such intercourse is) forbidden, (he shall remain chaste for a year), provided (the portion of the Veda thus employed) contained one thousand words.
22. Haradatta quotes a verse showing that 'something' means eight handfuls (mushti) of grain.
23. Manu XI, 134; Yâgñavalkya III, 273.
24. Manu XI, 135.
25. Manu XI, 34; Yâgñavalkya III, 273. Possibly danda, a bar, denotes here a particular measure, as a danda is said to be equal to four hastas or ninety-six angulis.
26. Manu XI, 139.
29-30. Âpastamba II, 10, 27, 11.
33. Haradatta says that by the employment of Vedic texts, teaching or sacrificing is meant, but that others refer the Sutra
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