101. "O scales! made by the gods, of old, the abode of truth: therefore do ye, propitious ones, declare the truth and liberate me from suspicion!
102. If I be an evil-doer, then bear me down, oh mother! If I be pure, carry me upwards!" Thus shall he [who is to go through the ordeal] invoke the scales.
103. The hands [of the accused] shall be inspected when rice has been rubbed in them; after which, seven leaves of the Indian fig tree are to be placed therein [scil. in his hands] and fastened round successively with a thread.
104. "Thou, O fire, dwellest in all created things! O purifier, in testimony of innocence and guilt, do thou, in my hand, make known the truth!"
105. When he [who suffers the ordeal] has thus spoken, let a smooth red hot iron ball, of fifty palas weight, be placed upon both his hands.
106. Carrying this, let him slowly walk across seven circles, of sixteen fingers breadth diameter each, with an interval of the same measure between each.
107. If, having thrown down the fireball, and being [again] rubbed with rice, he [the accused] is unburnt, his purification is accomplished. Should the ball during [the trial] fall down, or should there be any doubt, he is to take [it] again.
108. "By the power of truth, O Varuṇa,[173] save me!" Thus invoking the water, and grasping the thighs of a man standing in water up to his navel, let him [who goes through this ordeal] submerge himself.
109. An arrow at the same instant shot [from the bow] a swift footed-man shall [run and] fetch: should he, upon his return, see that the body [of the accused] is still submerged, the latter is to be exculpated.
110. "Thou, O poison, Bráhmá's[174] son, art ordained for truth and right; free me from the accusation, and be to me, by the power of truth, a draught of immortality!"