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Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 4 · Ashvini 2nd Pada
अश्विनी नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
पत्न्या सह ततो द्रव्यव्ययं कुर्वन् दिने दिने ॥एवं बहुतिथे काले क्षत्री कालवशोऽभवत् ॥ ८ ॥
Then he spent the wealth day by day with his wife. After a long time the kshatriya (warrior class) fell under the power of time.
Classical view, not medical advice.
पश्चान्मृता ततः पत्नी निर्जले गहने वने ॥
Afterward his wife died in a deep, waterless forest. By the order of Yama (the god of death), his messengers threw them into a dreadful hell of mud.
निक्षिप्य महतीं पीडां तयोर्दत्त्वा ततः प्रिये ॥
Having thrown them in, they gave them great pain, dear one. O fair one, he suffered the pains of hell for one yuga (long age).
नरकान्निःसृतो देवि गर्दभत्वमजायत ॥
He came out of hell, O Goddess, and was born as a donkey. Then he lived as a lizard and after that became a mortal. (Our text is unclear here: one…