[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [Storia do Mogor](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci) › [Storia do Mogor (Irvine)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine) › 255.1.7 # Storia do Mogor 255.1.7 Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 255.1.7 - **Language:** English ### [255.1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.255.1.7) If they do not succeed in this way, they expose him to fire by making him tread on red-hot iron bars, and brand him on the ribs with iron axes heated in a fire. Others are drawn with red-hot pincers, others are tortured with cold pincers, which hurt even more. Some have their arms tied with ropes up to such a point and so tightly that the blood comes in drops from their finger-ends; and thus tightly bound they are suspended from two iron rings placed abreast and flogged with all imaginable cruelty with the whips that are used to horses. Others are stretched on the ground tied to four posts, and there they rub the man's face with criques (bricks) so violently and forcibly that it is made as flat as a board. Others are thrown naked upon sharp thorns, and on the top of the man is placed a board, on which three or four men walk up and down. In other cases they tie thick cords steeped in oil to all the fingers of the hands and throw the cords over a beam, suspending the fingers in the air, without any power of movement. They then set light to the ends of the cords and let them burn to the last, unless the sufferer before that time promises what is asked. If he makes a promise it is reduced to writing, and the poor wretch has to procure a surety. - [Previous: 255.1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.255.1.6) - [Next: 255.2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.255.2.1) - [Up: 255.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.255.1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.255.1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.255.1.7) · Pramāṇa