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Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 45 · A Woodcutter in Karnata
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
यमाज्ञया महादेवि भुक्त्वा नरकयातनाम् ॥षष्टिवर्षसहस्राणि नरके पच्यते च सः ॥ ४ ॥
By the order of Yama (the god of death), O great Goddess, he suffered the pain of hell. He was cooked in hell for sixty thousand years.
Classical view, not medical advice.
कुक्कुटत्वं ततो जातं चक्रवाकस्ततोऽभवत् ॥
Then he was born a cock, and then a chakravaka bird. Then he became a man in a most honoured land.
शूद्रसेवारतो नित्यं शूद्रस्नेहेन यन्त्रितः ॥
He is always keen to serve shudras (servant class) and is bound to them by fondness. Over the buying and selling of a buffalo, enmity arises with…
पूर्वजन्मनि भो देवि कृतं वृक्षस्य छेदनम् ॥
O Goddess, in the past birth he cut down a tree. So a disease came to him, a pain in the waist that never stops.