History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c71.s1.102.4

v5.c71.s1.102.4

For that crime no other punishment is laid down except that of the cutting of the penis." These two, Yāj. and Nārada, show that excision of the organ and death are both the expiation and the punishment for this crime. The Mit. (on Yāj III. 233) adds that this punishment applies only to the offenders other than a brāhmaṇa, since Manu (VIII. 380) prescribes that a brāhmaṇa offender should not be punished with death whatever sin or crime he may have committed and that he is to be banished from the country unhurt and is to retain all his wealth. The Viṣṇudharma-sūtra (36.4-7) adds a few more women to the list of Yāj and Nārada (such as a woman in her monthly illness, the wife of a learned brāhmaṇa or of one's sacrificial priest or of one's *Upādhyāya*).