Later law-books describe the length and strength of the bow, and some even give the measure of distance to which the arrow must be shot.

Two runners, one to go and one to return, are sometimes allowed.

There is another water-ordeal "for religious men." The accused is to drink consecrated water.
If in fourteen (or more or less) days no calamity happen to him he will be innocent.

The same test is made in the case of the oath and of poison (below).] [Footnote 41: In the case of witnesses Manu gives seven days as the limit.

When one adopts the oath as an ordeal the misfortune of the guilty is supposed to come 'quickly.' As an ordeal this is not found in the later law.