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Mahānirvāṇa Tantra 11.96

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Ullāsa 11 · Verse 96

कल्पितलिपिकरणे दण्डःForging a document

Verse 96

स्वीयार्थमपरार्थञ्चेत् कुर्वतः कल्पितां लिपिम् । दण्डस्तस्य विधातव्यो द्विपाद्यं कूटसाक्षिणः ॥ ९६ ॥

svīyārthamaparārthañcēt kurvataḥ kalpitāṁ lipim | daṇḍastasya vidhātavyō dvipādyaṁ kūṭasākṣiṇaḥ || 96 ||

Translation

On one who makes a forged writing, for himself or for another, a punishment double that of a false witness is to be imposed.

Word by word

svīya
his own
artham
(artham) for
apara
another's
arthaṁ
for
cēt
if
kurvataḥ
(kurvataḥ) of one who makes
kalpitāṁ
forged
lipim
(lipim) writing
daṇḍaḥ
(daṇḍaḥ) punishment
tasya
on him
vidhātavyaḥ
(vidhātavyaḥ) is to be imposed
dvipādyaṁ
double
kūṭa
false
sākṣiṇaḥ
(sākṣiṇaḥ) of a witness

Meaning

Forgery is worse than perjury.

Commentary

Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated

Now he tells the punishment of one who forges writing, with "svīyārtham" and the rest. One who makes forged writing, for his own purpose or another's: on that person who makes such writing the king should impose a punishment of double the false witness's, the one who speaks falsely in testimony.