Arthashastra

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परिगृहीतां दासीम् आहितिकां वा संरुद्धिकाम् अधिचरतः पूर्वः साहस दण्डः, चोर डामरिक भार्यां मध्यमः, संरुद्धिकाम् आर्याम् उत्तमः ॥

When a person commits rape with a captive, slave, or hired woman in lock-up, he shall be punished with the first amercement; when he commits rape with the wife of a thief, or of any other man who is dead in an epidemic (dámara), he shall be punished with the middlemost amercement; and when he commits rape with an Arya woman in lock-up, he shall be punished with the highest amercement.

english translation

parigRhItAM dAsIm AhitikAM vA saMruddhikAm adhicarataH pUrvaH sAhasa daNDaH, cora DAmarika bhAryAM madhyamaH, saMruddhikAm AryAm uttamaH ॥

hk transliteration by Sanscript