The minor law books: The minor law books (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1889)

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ASSAULT.

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another person shall give a fine amounting to fifty
Pa/zas.
14. He who reviles a person’s native country or
other (belongings of his), shall be fined twelve
Pa;zas and a half. He who through arrogance
imputes an offence to him, shall be compelled to
pay the first fine.
15. This gradation of fines has been declared by
me, subject to modification by the sages, in con-
formity with the (particular caste or qualities of a)
man, so as either to remain as declared, or to be
reduced or raised.
XXI. Assault.
1. Injuring (a man) with a hand, stone, club, or
(throwing at him) ashes, or mud, or dust, or (attack-
ing him with) a weapon, is termed assault.
2. Throwing ashes or the like (at a man), or
striking him with a hand or the like, is (termed) an
assault of the first degree ; the fine to be inflicted in
that case shall amount to a Masha.
3. This fine is ordained for (an assault on) equals
in caste ; (for assaults) on another man’s wife or on
a superior, it shall be twofold or threefold, according
to the sages, according to the rank (of the person
injured).
4. He who having been abused returns the abuse,
or having been beaten returns the blow, or strikes
an offender down, commits no wrong.
14, ig. Viram. p. 488 ; Ratn. p. 257.
XXI, 1. Ratn. p. 259.
2, 3. Ratn. p. 261; Viv. p. 144.
4. May. p. 139; Viram. p. 472 ; Viv. p. 153; Ratn. p. 276.