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Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 102 · A Brahmin Who Left His Parents
पूर्वाभाद्रपदा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
निक्षितः शृङ्खलैर्बद्ध्वा यमदूतैर्यमाज्ञया ॥षष्टिवर्षसहस्राणि भुक्त्वा नरकयातनाम् ॥ ५ ॥
The messengers of Yama (the god of death) threw him in, tied with chains, at Yama's order. He suffered the pains of hell for sixty thousand years. (Our text is unclear here: the word for chained is not fully clear.)
Classical view, not medical advice.
नरकान्निःसृतो देवि गोधायोनिरभूत्पुरा ॥
Coming out of hell, O Goddess, he was first born as a monitor lizard. Next he was born as a lizard. Then he became a sparrow.
मानुषत्वं ततो लेभे मध्यदेशे वरानने ॥
Then he got a human birth in the middle country, O fair-faced one. He is rich in wealth and grain, but has no family line, O Great Goddess.
पूर्वजन्मनि देवेशि ब्राह्मणत्वं यतोऽत्यजत् ॥
In a past birth, O Lady of the gods, he gave up being a brahmin. By that wrong, O Goddess, his son dies again and again.