History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.20.8

v4.c63.20.8

11 for murdering a man in a quarrel (but when the wounded man dies a fortnight or a month after the quarrel, highest fine or fine of five hundred *paṇas* and the expenses of medical treatment); different kinds of punishments are provided for wounding with a weapon, impalement for causing violent death of men and women, burning alive for those who aim at securing the kingdom or force entrance into the royal harem or incite wild tribes or enemies or instigate disaffection in the capital or country or army, drowning (or solitary confinement in a dark room, acc. to another reading) for a brāhmaṇa offender of this sort, cutting of tongue for insulting or abuse of parents or a teacher or an ascetic, drowning for one destroying the dam of a tank or for a poisoner or for a woman murdering a man, tearing to death by bulls for a woman who murders her husband or child or her elders or administers poison or sets fire. Kauṭ. adds that the punishment of death with torture has been prescribed by ancient smṛti-writers, but that it is proper to order simple death in cases of offences in which no cruelty enters. Kauṭ. IV.