Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 102 · A Brahmin Who Left His Parents
पूर्वाभाद्रपदा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
नरकान्निःसृतो देवि गोधायोनिरभूत्पुरा ॥सरटस्य पुनर्योनिं चटकत्वं ततोऽभवत् ॥ ६ ॥
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.
Classical view, not medical advice.
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.
अनेन पितरौ वृद्धौ त्यक्तौ दुर्मतिना यतः ॥
This fool left his old father and mother. So he has illness in the body. His wife is a kakavandhya (a woman who has only one child), and she has…