According to Kautilya's Arthashastra, which of the following are correct?1.A person could be a slave as a result of a judicial punishment.2.If a female slave bore her master a son, she was legally free.3.If a son born to a female slave was fathered by her master, the son was entitled to the legal status of the master's son.Which of the statements given above are correct?

1. A

   1 and 2 only

   1 and 2 only. The master’s son by a slave woman also takes status in the Arthashastra rule keyed here.

2. B

   2 and 3 only

   2 and 3 only. A slave woman who bears her master a son is freed; that son has the status of the master’s son. Judicial-punishment slavery is not the keyed first limb.

3. C

   1 and 3 only

   1 and 3 only. Statement 1 is out of this key.

4. D

   1, 2 and 3

   All three. The paper stops at two.

Summary. Official key is (b) 2 and 3 only. Kautilya: if a dasi bears her master a son she is legally free, and the son is entitled to the status of the master’s son. Statement 1 is not counted as a correct Arthashastra rule in this item.