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 [a weapon] be raised [against one of inferior cast],[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] 223. He who batters, rends, breaks or pulls down a wall, shall be made to pay a fine of five, ten or twenty _paṇas_ besides the value. 224. He who casts into a dwelling house any thing hurtful or destructive of life, shall be made to pay, for the first a fine of sixteen _paṇas_, for the second the middle fine. 225. For injury to the smaller sort of cattle, or for shedding their blood, for lopping one of their horns or the like[313] or one of their limbs, one shall pay a fine of two and a half _paṇas_ and upwards. 226. For cutting off the male privy member [of such cattle], or slaying [one], the middle fine, as well as the value [of the animal], shall be paid. For the larger cattle in such cases the fine is double.[314] 227. For cutting down branches, or the trunk, or the entire tree,[315] of such as re-produce [after mutilation], [also for similar injuries] to trees which supply food,[316] the fine shall be doubled progressively up from twenty _paṇas_:[317]