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Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 68 · A Greedy Merchant of Kalyana
अनुराधा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
प्रत्यहं भुज्यते छागविक्रयं कुरुते सदा ॥वृद्धे सति महादेवि वैश्यस्य मरणं ह्यभूत् ॥ ५ ॥
He ate every day and always sold goats. When he was old, O Great Goddess, the merchant died.
Classical view, not medical advice.
यमदूतैस्तदा बद्ध्वा निक्षिप्तो नरकार्णवे ॥
The messengers of Yama (the god of death) bound him and threw him into the ocean of hell. Yama, the Sun's son, showed his own form to that merchant.
नवत्यब्दसहस्राणि घोरे नरकदारुणे ॥
For 90,000 years, in the dreadful hell, worms of fearful shape gave him great pain.
ततो व्याघ्रस्य वै योनिं काककुक्कुटयोः पुनः ॥
Then he took the birth of a tiger, and again of a crow and a cock. Then he became a man, without son or daughter.