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Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 38 · A Garland Maker and Unreturned Gold
आश्लेषा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
गुरुदास इति ख्यातो वैश्यवर्णेषु पूजितः ॥आसीत्तस्मै तदा तेन स्वर्णं दत्तं प्रियाय वै ॥ ३ ॥
There was a man known as Gurudasa, honoured among the vaishyas (trader class). Then he gave gold to the garland maker, his dear friend.
Classical view, not medical advice.
लक्षत्रयं स्थितं स्वर्णं तस्य वैश्यपतेः प्रिये ॥
That vaishya chief's gold came to three lakh (a lakh is 100,000), dear one. The garland maker then put all of it in the ground.
स्वयं गतः स वैश्येन सार्धं वेण्यां तदा प्रिये ॥
Then, dear one, he himself went with the vaishya to Veni, where the rivers meet. There the two bathed by the rule in the month of Magha, as a fixed…
शूद्रस्तु स्वगृहं प्राप्तो वैश्यः काश्यां समागतः ॥
The shudra (servant class), the garland maker, came back to his own house. The vaishya came to Kashi. There in Kashi, O large-eyed one, he died.