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Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 28 · Punarvasu 1st Pada
पुनर्वसु नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
नरके पातयामास यमदूतो यमाज्ञया ॥षष्टिवर्षसहस्राणि भुक्ता नरकयातना ॥ १४ ॥
By the order of Yama (the god of death), his messenger threw him into hell. He suffered the pains of hell for sixty thousand years.
Classical view, not medical advice.
ततस्तेन तु प्रेतत्वं भुक्तमब्दसहस्रकम् ॥
Then he lived as a preta (ghost) for a thousand years. After that, O lovely one, he was an owl near the Kaushiki river.
सरय्वा उत्तरे कूले मानुषत्वं ततोऽभवत् ॥
On the north bank of the Sarayu river he then became human, O Goddess. It was in the Middle Country, with his wife, O fair-faced one.
धनधान्यसमायुक्तो राजसेवासु तत्परः ॥
He was rich in wealth and grain, and keen to serve the king. He was born in the first charana (quarter of a star) of Punarvasu, O Goddess.