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The basis of the division of sins into 'The
Grave' and 'The Lesser' seems to have been followed by
most of the Puranic as well as Siding Smrti writers.
Killing a Brahmin, drinking wine, Stealing Gold, committing
adultery and keeping company of any of the above four are
considered as 'Grave' sins. All others, moral, Teligious
and social are regarded as 'Lesser' sins and the Puranas
as also the Smrtis describe how for committing these a
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a person is punished. Generally the punishment takes two
forms; viz. sufferings in hell and vegetative, animal and low
173 human births on earth.
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As against the sin of killing a brahmin violence
of any sent towards any other being came to be regarded
as a lesser sin.Brahma Purana 174 states killing an un-
armed person results in a man's birth as a donkey, then as
a deer, a fish, a wild dog, an elephant and as a human being.
鉅�鉅� Stealing Gold was considered as a grave sin, stealing any
other article was considered as a lesser one and the Br.P.
describes in details the stealing of different articles and
175 the resulting low births. Thus it says, one who steals
173 Mrs.Pandit B.C. The origin and Development of the
Doctrine of Transmigration, in the Sanskrit literature
of the Hindus; a thesis submitted for the Ph.D. degree
in Sankrit to the University of Bombay, 1957.
174. 217. 100-104; also of Garuda P. Purva Khanda,
A-225 V123, also of Mbh. 13.111. 112-116 (Bom.ed.)
175. 217. 87-99; (f. Garuda P. Purva Khanda. A. 104, 1-9;
of 225).