If a man wounds a Brahmana with a weapon, he will have to live in hell for as many years as the grains of dust that are soaked by the blood flowing from the body of the wounded.
शोणितं यावत: पांसून् संगृह्णीयाद् द्विजक्षतात्॥ तावती: स समा राजन् नरके प्रतिपद्यते।