Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 12 · Krittika 1st Pada
कृत्तिका नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
शरीरे वृद्धता जाता दया तस्य न चाभवत् ॥ततो वै मरणाद्देवि सती भार्या ततोऽभवत् ॥ ५ ॥
Old age came to his body. He had no mercy. Then at his death, O Goddess, his wife became a sati (a wife who dies with her husband).
Classical view, not medical advice.
सत्यलोकं गतस्तेन भार्यायाः सुकृतेन तु ॥
He went to Satyaloka (the world of truth) through his wife's good deeds. He enjoyed merit for a kalpa (a very long age) in Satyaloka, O fair-faced…
पुनः पुण्यक्षये जाते मानुषत्वमुपागतः ॥
When his merit ran out, he got a human birth again, with his wife. It was in a great and honoured family, O Goddess.
पूर्वजन्मविपाकेन मृतवत्सत्वमाप्नुयात् ॥
By the ripening of his past life, he gets the state of a mritavatsa (one whose children die young). In a past life, O faithful one, he killed a…