For ravishing the wife of a Brahmana well read in the Vedas, one should, for three years, practise the vow of Brahmacharya, living on spare diet at the fourth part of the day. For ravishing any other woman one should undergo similar penances for two years.
त्रीणि श्रोत्रियभार्यायां परदारे च द्वे स्मृते॥ काले चतुर्थे भुञ्जानो ब्रह्मचारी व्रती भवेत्।