Kautilya's Arthashastra 3.3.27

3.3.27

śaṅkitasthāne sambhāṣāyāṃ ca paṇasthāne śiphādaṇḍaḥ //

For holding conversation in suspicious places, whips may be substituted for fines. In the centre of the village, an outcaste person (chandála) may whip such women five times on each of the sides of their body. She may get rid of being whipped by paying a pana for each whip (panikam vá praharam mokshayet). Thus transgression is dealt with.