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Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 54 · A Craftsman and the Sun Remedy
हस्त नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
॥ शिव उवाच ॥कौशिक्या दक्षिणे कूले कारुको न्यवसत्प्रिये ॥विष्णुभक्तिरतो नित्यं कृषिकर्मसु तत्परः ॥ १ ॥
Shiva said: Dear one, a craftsman once lived on the south bank of the Kaushiki river. He always loved to worship Vishnu. He was busy with farm work.
Classical view, not medical advice.
धनं तु सञ्चितं देवि कार्पण्यात्पुण्यवर्जितम् ॥
O Goddess, he saved up wealth out of miserliness, with no good deeds. One night a tiger killed him in his field.
यमदूतैर्महाघोरे रौरवे पातितस्तदा ॥
Then the messengers of Yama (the god of death) threw him into the dreadful Raurava hell. He suffered the pains of hell for sixty thousand years.
ततः कर्मवशाद्देवि बिडालत्वं ततो गतः ॥
Then, O Goddess, by the force of his deeds he became a cat. Next he was a rooster, and then a jackal.