Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 110 · A Salt-Maker and a Friend's Jewels
रेवती नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
ततो वृद्धे च वयसि मरणं समजायत ॥पश्चान्मृता तु सा भार्या कुलटा व्यभिचारिणी ॥ ८ ॥
Then in old age he died. Afterwards his wife, an unfaithful, loose woman, died too.
Classical view, not medical advice.
यमदूतैर्महाघोरे नरके पङ्कसंज्ञके ॥
The messengers of Yama (the god of death) threw him into a very terrible hell, called Panka (mud). It was Kumbhipaka (the hell where sinners are…
युगमेकं विशालाक्षि भुक्त्वा नरकयातनाम् ॥
He suffered the pains of hell for one yuga (age), O wide-eyed one. Coming out of hell, O Goddess, he is born as a pig.
पुनः काकस्य वै योनिं बिडालत्वं ततोऽभवत् ॥
Then he became a crow. Then he became a cat. Then he became a man in a fine country, O Goddess. (Our text is unclear here: one mark in the last line…