ऊर्णा वल्क कार्पास तूल शण क्षौमाणि च विधवा न्यङ्गा कन्या प्रव्रजिता दण्ड प्रतिकारिणीभी रूप आजीवा मातृकाभिर् वृद्ध राज दासीभिर् व्युपरत उपस्थान देव दासीभिश् च कर्तयेत् ॥
Widows, cripple women, girls, mendicant or ascetic women (pravrajitá), women compelled to work in default of paying fines (dandápratikáriní), mothers of prostitutes, old women-servants of the king, and prostitutes (devadási) who have ceased to attend temples on service shall be employed to cut wool, fibre, cotton, panicle (túla), hemp, and flax.