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Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 65 · A Brahmin of Vishnu-Kanchi
विशाखा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
॥ शिव उवाच ॥विष्णुकाञ्च्यां महादेवि ब्राह्मणो वेदपारगः ॥अत्याचाररतः शान्तो विष्णुभक्तिपरायणः ॥ १ ॥
Shiva said: "O Great Goddess, in Vishnu-Kanchi lived a brahmin who knew the Veda. He was given to extreme practices, yet calm and wholly devoted to Vishnu."
Classical view, not medical advice.
लाञ्छितो विष्णुचक्रेण विप्रो विद्याविवर्जितः ॥
Marked with Vishnu's discus, the brahmin had no learning. He did not recite the Veda. Nowhere did he touch a brahmin.
द्विजानां स्मार्तवृत्तीनां विद्वेषं च करोति सः ॥
He hated brahmins who follow the law books. He hated those devoted to Shiva and the Goddess. He never greeted them.
एवं वयो गते देवि वृद्धे जाते वरानने ॥
So his years passed, O Goddess, and he grew old. Then the brahmin died, O lovely one.