70. Women, minors, aged men,[143] gamblers, persons intoxicated, madmen,[144] persons under suspicion of crime, stageplayers, infidels,[145] forgers, persons who are deprived of any sense,
71. heinous offenders,[146] intimate friends,[147] parties interested [in the suit], confederates, enemies [to either party], thieves, violent characters, the openly wicked,[148] persons cast off [by their friends and kin], and such like,[149] are inadmissible as witnesses.
72. Even one person,[150] being an intelligent follower of ritual duties,[151] may, with the consent of both parties, be witness [sufficient].
All are admissible[152] as witnesses in cases of rape, theft[153] defamation and personal trespass.[154]
73. The judge shall thus address the witnesses, as they come up to the plaintiff and defendant:
The worlds appointed for criminals, for atrocious criminals;[155]
74. the worlds appointed for incendiaries, for murderers of women and children—all these shall be the portion of him who gives false testimony!
75. Know, that whatever good has been done by thee in a hundred former births, all shall become his whom thou defeatest by falsehood![156]