Yohan’s Reviews > India: A History > Status Update

“Penalties are detailed for any transgressor of this last provision: the crime of overruling a sasana was commonly equated with that of killing ten thousand Varanasi cows—a sacrilege of unthinkable enormity in a city of unassailable sanctity for which the penalty was that of being reborn as a dung worm with a lifespan of eighty four thousand years.”