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Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 43 · A Merchant Who Skipped the Ancestors' Rite
मघा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
नरकान्निःसृतो देवि महिषत्वं ततोऽलभत् ॥पुनर्वै व्याघ्रयोनिश्च मूषयोनिस्ततोऽभवत् ॥ ७ ॥
O Goddess, coming out of hell he became a buffalo. Then he was born again as a tiger, and then as a rat.
Classical view, not medical advice.
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…
पूर्वजन्मकृतं पापं यतः शान्तिमवाप्नुयात् ॥
Hear from me in full, O Goddess, how the sin of the past birth is calmed.