Blood Money of a Woman

Q: What is the meaning of the following phrase: If a woman’s blood money exceeds one third of the man’s one, only one half is paid?

A: If the blood money of the injured body part of a woman is less than one third of the man’s (full) bloody money, the same amount is to be paid to the woman, e.g. two or three fingers of a woman are cut / severed. But, if the blood money of the injured part is more than one third of the man’s (full) blood money, the criminal owes the female victim only one half of it, like if an ear of a woman is severed or an eye is damaged to blindness. Anyhow, in decreasing woman’s blood money to one half of its actual value when it exceeds the third each injured body part is calculated separately and not the total blood money of several injuries. For example, if the criminal severed two fingers of a woman and damaged her eye to blindness, then since the actual bloody money of an eye equals one half of the full blood money, the blood money equals ¼ of the full one. And since the actual bloody money of the two fingers equals 1/5 of the full blood money, the woman victim deserves the same actual amount, i.e. 1/5. Therefore, she receives 9/20 of full blood money in total. That means, the blood money of the two fingers is not added to that of the eye to divide the total by two.