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Other rules pertaining to [[ascetics]] hinge on the [[spiritual]] [[power]] they were believed to have acquired through their austerities. The Bṛhaspatismṛti, at 1.27, warns the king to have a proxy, and specifically someone schooled in the three [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedas Vedas], hear cases involving ascetics and others skilled in sorcery. Since ascetics were believed to have [[supernatural]] [[powers]], incurring the anger of the losing party to such a case would have been viewed as [[potentially]] threatening to a king's life. What is more important to the larger [[discussion]] of ascetics and Ancient Indian [[law]], however, is the acknowledgment that cases could and sometimes did involve ascetics, despite their legally and socially dead status.
Other rules pertaining to [[ascetics]] hinge on the [[spiritual]] [[power]] they were believed to have acquired through their austerities. The Bṛhaspatismṛti, at 1.27, warns the king to have a proxy, and specifically someone schooled in the three [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedas Vedas], hear cases involving ascetics and others skilled in sorcery. Since ascetics were believed to have [[supernatural]] [[powers]], incurring the anger of the losing party to such a case would have been viewed as [[potentially]] threatening to a king's life. What is more important to the larger [[discussion]] of ascetics and Ancient Indian [[law]], however, is the acknowledgment that cases could and sometimes did involve ascetics, despite their legally and socially dead status.
==See also==
*'''''[[Sannyasa]]'''''
*'''''[[Monk]]'''''
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[[Category: Religion]]
