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Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 25 · Ardra 2nd Pada
आर्द्रा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
॥ शिव उवाच ॥शृणु देवि वरारोहे नृणां वै पूर्वजन्मनि ॥यत्कृतेन महाघोरे नरके परिपच्यते ॥ १ ॥
Shiva said: Listen, O lovely Goddess. Hear what people did in a past life. For it they are cooked in a terrible hell.
Classical view, not medical advice.
अवन्त्यां पश्चिमे द्वारे वैश्यो वसति भाग्यवान् ॥
At the west gate of Avanti lives a fortunate merchant. He is rich in money and grain and always keeps his own duty.
एवमर्द्धं वयो जातं दरिद्रत्वं ततोऽभवत् ॥
Half his life passed in this way, and then poverty came. O Goddess, to meet his costs he took a brahmin's gold.
पलविंशप्रमाणं तद्व्ययं जातं वरानने ॥
It was twenty pala (a unit of weight), O lovely one, and it was spent. Then the merchant died, together with his wife.