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Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 110 · A Salt-Maker and a Friend's Jewels
रेवती नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
यमदूतैर्महाघोरे नरके पङ्कसंज्ञके ॥कुम्भीपाके तदा देवि निक्षिप्तश्च यमाज्ञया ॥ ९ ॥
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 cooked in pots), O Goddess. This was at Yama's order.
Classical view, not medical advice.
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…
पूर्वजन्मनि देवेशि कुरुक्षेत्रे यतो मृतः ॥
In a past birth, O Queen of the gods, he died at Kurukshetra. So he has wealth. But he has no child, because he killed a brahmin.