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दाशापराधिक (dAzAparAdhika)

 
Apte
English
दाशापराधिकः [dāśāparādhikḥ], Probably an officer who collected fines for ten specified kinds of criminal offences.
Indian Epigraphical Glossary
English
Dāśāparādhika (IE 8-3
EI 29
HD), a judge dealing
with the ten offences (viz. theft, murder of women, adultery, use
of abusive language, violation of order, mixing of castes, illegal
pregnancy, obscenity, assault and abortion, according to some).
It has been said that the ten offences or aparādhas are those
of which the king could take cognisance suo moto. For the ten
aparādhas, see Kane, Hist. Dharm., Vol. III, p. 264
cf. Ep.
Ind., Vol. XVII, p. 321.