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The caste (of the offender, Contrary to popular belief, the reality is that the punishment for a Brahmin criminal was 64 times more than that of a Shudra criminal.), the thing (involved in the offence), the quantity (of that thing), the utility (of that thing), the person, concerning who the offence has been committed (parigrahaḥ), the age ...
Hinduism preaches ahimsa (or ahinsa, non-violence), [9] but also teaches that the soul cannot be killed and death is limited only to the physical body, [70] explaining the difficulty in choosing an exact position on capital punishment. [3] Hinduism's belief that life in this world is more of an illusion greatly decreases the religious impact on ...
The ancient texts suggest that there was significant debate and disagreement between Dharma scholars on what is the appropriate and sufficient penance or punishment for a given crime. For example, some texts suggest suicide as penance, or capital punishment for the crime of incest or rape, but other texts consider this as disproportionate ...
The classical texts of Hinduism devote numerous chapters to discussing what people who practice the virtue of ahimsa can and must do when faced with war, violent threat, or the need to sentence someone convicted of a crime. These discussions have led to theories of just war, ideas of reasonable self-defense, and views of proportionate punishment.
The Hindu religion regards Hell not as a place of lasting permanence, but as an alternate domain from which an individual can return to the present world after crimes in the previous life have been compensated for. These crimes are eventually nullified through an equal punishment in the next life.
The substance of Hindu law, was derived by the British colonial officials from Manusmriti, and it became the first Dharmasastra that was translated in 1794. [87] [10] The British colonial officials, for practice, attempted to extract from the Dharmaśāstra, the English categories of law and religion for the purposes of colonial administration.
According to Eaton these orders appear to have been directed not toward Hindu temples in general, but towards a more narrowly defined "deviant group". [67] The number of Hindu temples destroyed or desecrated under Aurangzeb's rule is unclear and subject to scholarly debate. [note 5] Some suggest he may have built more temples than he destroyed.
By virtue of a Hindu belief that killing of a brahmin (Bramhatya) was a sin, capital punishment was not applicable to them. [111] Upper caste kshatriyas (satkshatriya) were also exempt from capital punishment due to their higher position in the caste system.