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Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 14 · Krittika 3rd Pada
कृत्तिका नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
ततः शृगालयोनिं च मानुषत्वं ततो गतः ॥पूर्वजन्मकृतं कर्म इह लोके प्रभुज्यते ॥ ९ ॥
Then he took a jackal birth, and then he became a man. The deed of a past life is suffered in this world. (Our text is unclear here: one letter after the word for jackal is blotted, and we kept the reading its shape best fits.)
Classical view, not medical advice.
पाठयामास वै वेदान् ब्राह्मणेभ्यो वरानने ॥
He had taught the Vedas to brahmins, O fair-faced one. From that stored fruit he gets great wealth.
भार्या मृता ततः पुत्रो द्वितीया च विवाहिता ॥
His wife died. Then there was a son, and a second wife was married. His body has many diseases. He has no happiness.
वृद्धे सति वरारोहे पुत्रः शत्रुर्भवेदिति ॥
When he is old, O fair-hipped one, his son becomes his enemy. The woman becomes a mritavatsa (one whose children die young) from the ripening of…