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Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 43 · A Merchant Who Skipped the Ancestors' Rite
मघा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
स तयोर्नाकरोच्छ्राद्धं यत्कर्तव्यं सुतैः प्रिये ॥ततो बहुदिने याते वृद्धे सति वरानने ॥ ४ ॥
He did not do for them the shraddha (rite for the dead ancestors) that sons must do, dear one. Then, as many days passed, he grew old, O lovely one.
Classical view, not medical advice.
मरणं तस्य वै जातं वैश्यस्य कृपणस्य च ॥
That stingy merchant died. By the order of Yama (the god of death), a messenger threw him into the terrible Kumbhipaka hell.
निक्षिप्तं शृंखलैर्बध्वा युगपञ्चदशं समाः ॥
He was bound in chains and thrown in for fifteen yugas (ages) of years. He suffered the pain of hell, full of huge worms.
नरकान्निःसृतो देवि महिषत्वं ततोऽलभत् ॥
O Goddess, coming out of hell he became a buffalo. Then he was born again as a tiger, and then as a rat.