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Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 61 · A Brahmin Who Saved and Gave Nothing
स्वाती नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
स्वभार्यां च परित्यज्य परभार्यारतो द्विजः ॥धनेश्वर इति ख्यातं तस्य नाम पुराभवत् ॥ ४ ॥
The brahmin left his own wife and loved other men's wives. His name in that time was famed as Dhaneshvara.
Classical view, not medical advice.
ततो बहुगते काले तस्य मृत्युरभूत्किल ॥
After a long time he died. The messenger of Yama (the god of death) bound him and threw him into the ocean of hell. (Our text is unclear here: one…
महाघोरे सुरश्रेष्ठे कल्पमेकं तदावसत् ॥
O best of goddesses, he stayed in that dreadful place for one kalpa (a very long age). Then he got a tiger's birth, and then a bull's.
पुनर्मानुषयोनिं च मृतवत्सत्वमाप्नुयात् ॥
Then he was born a man, and became a mritavatsa (one whose children die young). He suffers from a great illness and never finds joy.