Civil Services Examination · प्रश्न 60
According to Kautilya's Arthashastra, which of the following are correct? 1. A person could be a slave as a result of a judicial punishment. 2. If a female slave bore her master a son, she was legally free. 3. If a son born to a female slave was fathered by her master, the son was entitled to the legal status of the master's son. Which of the statements given above are correct?
उत्तर देखें और व्याख्या
उत्तर: (D) 1, 2 and 3
व्याख्या
The Arthashastra recognises slavery through judicial punishment (dandadasa), and frees a female slave and her son when the master fathers him, giving the son the master's son's status.