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स्त्रियं दासीम् अधिमेहयतां पूर्वः साहस दण्डः, अदासीं मध्यमः, कृत अवरोधाम् उत्तमः, कुल स्त्रियं वधः ॥

When a watchman has carnal connection with a slave woman, he shall be punished with the first amercement; with a free woman middlemost amercement; with a woman arrested for untimely movement, the highest amercement; and a woman of high birth (kulastrí), he shall be put to death.

english translation

striyaM dAsIm adhimehayatAM pUrvaH sAhasa daNDaH, adAsIM madhyamaH, kRta avarodhAm uttamaH, kula striyaM vadhaH ॥

hk transliteration by Sanscript

Chapter 36

Verse 40

Chapter 36

Verse 42