1 196 APPENDIX — CRIMES.
2 thrown into a hora, or dungeon, and required to refund,
3 and when they have satisfied the cupidity of their supe-
4 rior, they are generally permitted to resume their func-
5 tions, honored with the shawl as a mark of favor. Capi-
6 tal punishment is very seldom inflicted. The most incor-
7 rigible culprits are punished with the loss of either one
8 or both hands, and deprivation of nose or ears ; but muti-
9 lation is rare, for whoever has the means to pay, or can
10 procure a respectable security to pay for him within a
11 given time, may expiate the most heinous transgressions*.
12 On the commission of a daJca or burglary, a quzzakeef,
13 or highway robbery, the chief, within whose jurisdiction
14 the act has been perpetrated, is called upon to make
15 restitution ; and, should he decline, the chief whose sub-
16 ject has suffered, resorts to the Lex talionis, and drives off
17 several hundred head of cattle, or retaliates in some way
18 or other. This summary method of obtaining indemnifi-
19 cation for all robberies attended with aggravating circum-
20 stances, is a measure of absolute necessity, as many of
21 the petty Chiefs, their Officers and Zumeendars, harbour
22 thieves, and participate in their guilty practises.
23 When a petty theft is substantiated, either through the
24 medium of a Muhur-khaee, or the production of a Mooddo
25 or Numoona, (the confession of one of the thieves, or a
26 part of the stolen property) the sufferer has generally
27 * Statutes were passed in the rcipns of Henry 8th, Edward 6th,
28 Elizabeth, anclJ ames 1st, sauctioninjj, and directing the loss of the right
29 and left hand, and of an ear, for oifences which would by a Sikh, scarce-
30 ly be deemed deserving the infliction of a mulct.
31 t This is an Arabic or Turkish word. In the provincial dialect we
32 have Dharwee.