Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 45 · A Woodcutter in Karnata
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
कुक्कुटत्वं ततो जातं चक्रवाकस्ततोऽभवत् ॥मानुषत्वं ततो जातं देशे पूज्यतमे तथा ॥ ५ ॥
Then he was born a cock, and then a chakravaka bird. Then he became a man in a most honoured land.
Classical view, not medical advice.
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.
गोत्रकन्याभिगमनं यत्कृतं पूर्वजन्मनि ॥
In the past birth he lay with a girl of his own family line. By that sin, O Goddess, his son dies.