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Ask Devdutt Pattanaik: Murder and justice in Indian scriptures

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The Dharmasankat

The queen Nur Jahan accidentally kills a washer man with her arrows she was playing in the garden. The wife comes to the jahankir and says you know you always tell I for an eye my husband has been taken away from me but her husband happens to be the king of India. Suddenly you are being told a very brutal truth that all humans are not equal, some eyes are disposable and some eyes are not disposable.

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