Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 68 · A Greedy Merchant of Kalyana
अनुराधा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
नवत्यब्दसहस्राणि घोरे नरकदारुणे ॥महाकष्टं तदा दत्तं कृमिभिर्घोररूपिभिः ॥ ७ ॥
For 90,000 years, in the dreadful hell, worms of fearful shape gave him great pain.
Classical view, not medical advice.
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.
पुनर्विवाहिता सा तु या पत्नी पूर्वजन्मनि ॥
The wife of his past life was married to him again. He is ill. She too is ill and in pain. She is a mritavatsa (one whose children die young), again…
एकापत्या भवेद्दुष्टा न स्यादन्यसुतः प्रिये ॥
She has only one child. She is at fault, and no other son comes, dear one. Then, when he gives away all he owns and worships Surya (the Sun god),