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Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 43 · A Merchant Who Skipped the Ancestors' Rite
मघा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
निक्षिप्तं शृंखलैर्बध्वा युगपञ्चदशं समाः ॥भुक्त्वा नरकजं दुःखं महाक्रिमिसमाकुलम् ॥ ६ ॥
He was bound in chains and thrown in for fifteen yugas (ages) of years. He suffered the pain of hell, full of huge worms.
Classical view, not medical advice.
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.
व्याधिग्रस्तोऽभवद्देवि पुत्रकन्याविवर्जितः ॥
O Goddess, he fell ill and had no sons or daughters. His wife became a kakavandhya (a woman who has only one child). She was a mritavatsa (one whose…