1. 1 This (aggregate of rules concerning) lawsuits instituted by litigants has been briefly declared; I will declare (next the law concerning) Miscellaneous Causes instituted by the king (in person).
3. 3 (However) the first rank (among legislators) belongs to Manu, because he has embodied the essence of the Veda in his work; that Smriti (or text of law) which is opposed to the tenor of the laws of Manu is not approved.
4. 4 When he has discovered a man to be an offender, (the king) should inflict (one of the various sorts of punishment) on him, (gentle) admonition, (harsh) reproof or corporal chastisement, or one of the four gradations of fines.
5. (Let him inflict) a (gentle) admonition, when the offence is very light; (harsh) reproof, for a crime in the first degree; a fine, for a crime in the (second or) middlemost degree; and arrest, in the case of high-treason.
6. Banishment also may be resorted to by (a king) desirous of promoting his own welfare in order to meet opposition, and all (the various) sorts (of punishment) should be united in the case of one who has committed a mortal sin.
7. (The king) should punish elders, domestic priests, and persons commanding respect, with (gentle) admonition only; other litigants he should amerce in a fine, when they are found to be guilty;
9. 9 Both hands, both feet, the male organ, the eye, the tongue, both ears, the nose, the neck, one half of the feet, the thumb and index, the forehead, the lips, the hindpart, and the hips:
10. These fourteen places of punishment have been indicated. For a Brahman, branding him on the forehead is ordained as the only kind of punishment.
11. 11 A Brahman, though a mortal sinner, shall not suffer capital punishment; the king shall banish him, and cause him to be branded and shaved.
12. 12 That man who deserves capital punishment shall be compelled to pay one hundred Suvarnas; one deserving to have a limb cut off, half as much; and one deserving to have the thumb and index (cut off), half of that.
13. 13 The eighteen titles of law have been explained, together with the particulars of plaint and answer. Learn now (the law regarding) the relative validity of transactions.
14. That transaction which has been prior in time (to another) shall be upheld. If it is departed from, that is (called) an alteration of a transaction.
15. If a creditor or debtor revokes a previous
20. The highly reprehensible custom of a brother living with his deceased brother's wife, and the delivery of a marriageable damsel to a family is found in other countries.
21. What is more, matches with a mother occur among the Pârasîkas. The inhabitants of some countries do not allow the presentation of fresh gifts (of food) at a Srâddha offering to those Brahmans who have been fed at a Srâddha held on the eleventh
26. 26 When the safety of many may be effected by destroying a single offender, his, execution is productive of religious merit (even).
386:1 XXVII, 1. Vîram. p. 722; Ratn. p. 621.
387:2 Vîram. p. 119.
387:3 Col. Dig. V, 5, 333, vedârthopanibaddhatvât prâdhânyam tu manoh smritam | manvarthaviparîtâ yâ na sâ smritih prasasyate ||
387:4 4-7. Ratn. p. 629.
388:8 Ratn. p. 630.
388:9 9, 10. Ratn. p. 631.
388:11 Ratn. p. 634.
388:12 Ratn. p. 656.
388:13 13-18. Ratn. pp. 618-620.
389:19 19-24. These texts will be published elsewhere. They have been taken from the Samskâra Kânda of the Smritikandrikâ, where they are quoted from an uncertain author. 20 has been printed, as a text of Brihaspati, in Professor Baler's Uggvalâ, p. 101. The term 'Pârasîkas' denotes the Persians, or perhaps the Parsis of India.
390:25 Ratn. p. 618.
390:26 Smritik. ekasmin yatra nidhanam prâpite dushtakârini | bahûnâm bhavati kshemas tasya punyaprado vadhah ||
