The wicked, therefore, should not be uprooted. The extermination of the wicked is not quite of a piece with eternal practice. By punishing them gently, by depriving them of all their riches, by chains and imprisonment, by disfiguring them they may be made to expiate their offences. Their relatives should not be punished by the infliction of capital sentences on them. If in the presence of the priest and others, they give themselves up to him from desire of protection, and swear, saying,-0 Brahmana, we shall never again commit any sin,-they would then be discharged without any punishment. This is command of the Creator himself. Even the Brahmana who puts on a deer-skin and the wand and has his head shaved, should be punished.
न मूलघातः कर्तव्यो नैष धर्मः सनातनः। अपि स्वल्पवधेनैव प्रायश्चित्तं विधीयते॥ उद्वेजनेन बन्धेन विरूपकरणेन च। वधदण्डेन ते क्लिश्या न पुरोहितसंसदि॥ यदा पुरोहितं वा ते पर्येयुः शरणैषिणः। करिष्यामः पुनर्ब्रह्मन् न पापमिति वादिनः॥ तदा विसर्गमर्हाः स्युरितीदं धातृशासनम्। बिभ्रद् दण्डाजिनं मुण्डो ब्राह्मणोऽर्हति शासनम्॥