Physical assault
“daṇḍapāruṣya”
idea · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
physical assault · blow · daṇḍapāruṣya · injury
in the texts
Kātyāyana Smṛti
Legal category covering bodily injury to persons and animals, with punishments graded by caste, body part, and intent.
Just as the fines were stated for verbal assault in cases of unions against and with the natural order of castes, so also should the fines be imposed in order for physical assault.
If one cannot determine the cause of a physical assault by motive and other means, one should employ witnesses or a divine ordeal there.
For defiling with vomit, urine, feces, and the like, the fine shall be four-fold (if below the navel), six-fold in the middle of the body, and it is remembered as eight-fold on the head.
Manusmṛti
The legal category covering bodily injury between persons and to property/animals, with caste-graded mutilating and monetary punishments.
For all kinds of trees, according to their usefulness, a fine should be imposed for causing injury;
Where the draft animal swerves due to the fault of the driver, there the owner shall be fined two hundred for causing injury.
For causing injury to a limb, and for causing a wound or bleeding, he shall be made to pay the cost of the cure, or the entire fine as well.
Nāradasmṛti
The legal category covering bodily attacks, graded by severity of harm inflicted
An attack on another's body with hands, feet, weapons, and the like, and injury with ashes and the like, is called physical assault (`daṇḍapāruṣya` (दण्डपारुष्य)).
light, medium, and highest, by threatening, touching, striking, and showing blood.
Physical Assault