[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) › [Mongolicae legationis commentarius](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.monserrate) › [The Commentary of Father Monserrate (Hoyland)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.monserrate~en-hoyland) › 3.1.3 # The Commentary of Father Monserrate 3.1.3 The Commentary of Father Monserrate (Hoyland) 3.1.3 - **Language:** English ### [3.1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.monserrate~en-hoyland.3.1.3) The following are the ways in which the guilty are punished. Those who have committed a capital crime are either crushed by elephants, impaled, or hanged. Seducers and adulterers are either strangled or gibbeted. The King has such a hatred of debauchery and adultery that neither influence nor entreaties nor the great ransom which was offered would induce him to pardon his chief trade commissioner, who although he was already married had violently debauched a well-born Brahman girl. The wretch was by the King's order remorselessly strangled. Although Muhammad did not forbid unnatural crimes, yet Zelaldinus punished those who are guilty of such crimes by savage scourging with leather thongs. - [Previous: 3.1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.monserrate~en-hoyland.3.1.2) - [Next: 3.1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.monserrate~en-hoyland.3.1.4) - [Up: 3.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.monserrate~en-hoyland.3.1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.monserrate~en-hoyland.3.1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.monserrate~en-hoyland.3.1.3) · Pramāṇa