Here is Question No. 60 a part of our series on UPSC Prelims 2022.
Q60. According to Kautilya’s Arthashastra, which of the following is correct?
- A person could be a slave as a result of a judicial punishment.
- If a female slave bore her master a son, she was legally free.
- 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?
a) 1 and 2 only
b) 2 and 3 only
c) 1 and 3 only
d) 1, 2 and 3
Answer – D
- Statement 1 is correct: According to Kautilya’s Arthashastra, a person can be enslaved for fines of court decree which Kautilya’s Arthashastra is defined as “Dandapranita”. There are several types of enslavement that is given in Arthashastra. One of the prime methods of enslavement was to have a person as a slave as a result of judicial punishment for some sort of criminal demeanor.
- Statement 2 is correct: According to Kautilya’s Arthashastra, children born to a slave and master when a slave gives birth to a child, both the mother and child shall be recognized as free and were no longer considered to be slaves.
- Statement 3 is correct: 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
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