Book Title: Vivagsuyam
Author(s): Madhusudan Modi
Publisher: Gurjar Granth Ratna Karyalay

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________________ 7 4 The Eleventh Anga [ I. Lect. 6. and blades of Darbha grass. Then that jailor got captured many thieves, debauches, pick-pockets, king's offenders, debtors, killers of children, killers. of persons by taking them into confidence, gamblers and rogues, and having done so he made them lie on their backs, made them open their mouths with an iron bar and made some of them drink melted copper, some melted tin, some melted lead, some heated water mixed with chunum, some heated oil mixed with salts or acids and some he made to bathe with that very oil. He made others lie down on their backs and made some drink the urine of horses, some that of elephants, (here the rest to be supplicit as above, down to) and some that of rams. He made others fall down on their belly and to some he gave lashes of whips with a 'chhada chadda' sound, to some he gave excessive pain with the same, some he handcuffed, some he fastened with fetters on feet, some he fastened on 'hadis,' some he put inio shackles, he forced some to contract and break their limbs etc., some he chained with iron chains, he cut off the hands of some ( and so forth, down to ) some he wounded with weapons, some he got to be beaten by means of bamboo-creepers ( here the rest to be supplied as above, down to ) and some with straps made from hemp. Others he made to lie down on their backs, and got slabs of stones to be put on their bellies and then got sticks to be put upon those slabs and having done so he asked his men to give a good shaking to the offenders and some

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