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Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 42 · A Potter and a Brahmin Friend
मघा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
ब्राह्मण्यां गमनं नित्यं बहुवर्षं निरंतरम् ॥एवं बहुगते काले समर्तीते सुरेश्वरि ॥ ४ ॥
He went to the brahmin's wife daily, for many years without a break. Time passed in this way, O Goddess. (Our text is unclear here: the word for 'years' may be read slightly differently.)
Classical view, not medical advice.
कुलालस्य ततो मृत्युर्वृद्धे जाते सुरेश्वरि ॥
The potter died when he was old. Afterwards his wife died too, the one who had been unchaste before.
यमदूतैर्महाघोरैः कर्दमे नरके प्रिये ॥
By the order of Yama (the god of death), Yama's terrible messengers threw him into the hell of mud. It was for three lakh years (a lakh is 100,000)…
पतिव्रता समायाता लक्षत्रयगते सति ॥
When three lakh years had passed, his faithful wife came, dear one. She lifted her husband out of the ocean of hell,