Physical assault
“daṇḍapāruṣya”
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physical assault · blow · daṇḍapāruṣya · injury
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Kātyāyana Smṛti
Legal category covering bodily injury to persons and animals, with punishments graded by caste, body part, and intent.
## Physical Assault
The same is said to be double for actually striking, among one's own caste.
The man who strikes with a threatening weapon, or who strikes first without being hurt, is declared to be punishable.
Manusmṛti
The legal category covering bodily injury between persons and to property/animals, with caste-graded mutilating and monetary punishments.
hereafter I will declare the determination of physical assault.
he who strikes in anger with his foot deserves to have his foot cut off.
If he seizes him by the hair, he should have his hands cut off without hesitation;
Nāradasmṛti
The legal category covering bodily attacks, graded by severity of harm inflicted
Physical Assault
light, medium, and highest, by threatening, touching, striking, and showing blood.
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)).