All others, and all special descriptions and restrictions, are mentioned in later books alone.

Moreover, the earliest (pre-legal) notice of ordeals in India describes the carrying of hot iron (in the test of theft) as simply "bearing a hot axe," while still earlier there is only walking through fire.[42] To the tests by oath, fire, and water of the code of Manu are soon added in later law those of consecrated water, poison, and the balance.

Restrictions increase and new trials are described as one descends the series of law-books (the consecrated food, the hot-water test, the licking of the ploughshare, and the lot), Some of these later forms have already been described.

The further later tests we will now sketch briefly.
Poison: The earliest poison-test, in the code of Y[=a]jnavalkya (the next after Manu), is an application of aconite-root, and as the poison is very deadly, the accused is pretty sure to die.

Other laws give other poisons and very minute restrictions, tending to ease the severity of the trial.
The Balance-test: This is the opposite of the floating-test.