Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 66 · A Warrior Who Took Brahmins' Livelihood
विशाखा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
नरकान्निर्गतो देवि गर्दभत्वं ततोऽगमत् ॥रासभत्वात्ततो देवि मानुषत्वं ततोऽभवत् ॥ ५ ॥
Leaving hell, O Goddess, he became a donkey. From a donkey he became a man.
Classical view, not medical advice.
तस्य भार्याभवद्वन्ध्या पूर्वजन्मफलाच्छिवे ॥
His wife was a vandhya (a woman who cannot bear children), from the fruit of his past life. So his body gets disease. It brings ringworm (a skin…
न सुखं लभते देवि चिन्तया व्याकुलेन्द्रियः ॥
He finds no peace, his senses troubled by worry. Listen to all of it, O lovely one, for ending the earlier wrong.
दशांशं विभवं देवि ब्राह्मणाय समर्पयेत् ॥
Give one tenth of your wealth to a brahmin. Build step-wells, wells, ponds and the like along the road.