Arthashastra

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जारं चोर इत्य् अभिहरतः पञ्च शतो दण्डः, हिरण्येन मुञ्चतस् तद् अष्ट गुणः ॥

When a man falsely accuses another of having committed theft while in reality the latter is guilty of adultery, the complainant shall be fined 500 panas. He who lets off an adulterer by receiving gold shall pay a fine of eight times the value of the gold (he received).

english translation

jAraM cora ity abhiharataH paJca zato daNDaH, hiraNyena muJcatas tad aSTa guNaH ॥

hk transliteration by Sanscript