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n terminology, is a person who had either been condemned to or previously subjected to two hundred stripes with the ''Aspahe-astra'' and the ''Sraosho-karana''. Two hundred flogs with a whip was a

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next only to death. A Peshotanu was also designated margarzan or "worthy of death".

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