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Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 43 · A Merchant Who Skipped the Ancestors' Rite
मघा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
मरणं तस्य वै जातं वैश्यस्य कृपणस्य च ॥यमाज्ञया तु दूतेन कुम्भीपाके सुदारुणे ॥ ५ ॥
That stingy merchant died. By the order of Yama (the god of death), a messenger threw him into the terrible Kumbhipaka hell.
Classical view, not medical advice.
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.
काकयोनिं ततो भुक्त्वा गजयोनिस्ततोऽभवत् ॥
After living as a crow, he became an elephant. Then, O wide-eyed one, he was born in a good land, rich in money and grain.