214. that is, if the parties be on an equality. If [the offence be] against other men's wives, or against superiors, [then the penalty is] double; if against inferiors, the half. Should [the aggressors] be insane or intoxicated or the like, there shall not be punishment.
215. Should a limb of one not a bráhmaṇ occasion pain to a bráhmaṇ, it shall be cut off. If [306] the lowest fine [is to be paid]; if the weapon be merely handled, then the fine shall be half.[307]
216. But should a hand or a foot be raised, the fine shall be [respectively] ten and twenty paṇas. People, however, of any [cast, who lift] weapons against their cast-fellows shall pay the middle fine.
217. For pulling a person by the foot, by the hair, by the clothing, or by the hand, the fine is ten paṇas: for inflicting pain by dragging about or by violent handling of the clothes, and for putting the foot upon a person, [the fine is] a hundred paṇas.
218. He who beats with a stick or the like, short of effusion of blood, shall pay a fine of thirty-two paṇas; if blood appear, the fine is double[308]
219. For damaging a hand, a foot, or a tooth, and for cutting the ears or the nose, there is the middle fine: the same for rending open a wound, or for beating a person till he be as one lifeless.
220. For beating [one so that he] cannot stir, or [so that he cannot] eat, or [so that he cannot] speak, for destroying an eye and the like,[309] for breaking a neck, an arm, or a thigh, [there shall be] the middle fine.[310]
221. If several unite in beating one person, the fine shall be double[311] that prescribed; whatever property be taken away in the struggle shall be restored, and, in addition, the double fine [imposed].
222. Whoever causes pain to another [by any such means] shall be made to pay the expense of the cure, as well as the regulated fine for the fray.[312]