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Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 69 · A Carpenter Who Kept an Ascetic's Money
अनुराधा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
पूर्वजन्मनि भो देवि काष्ठच्छेदः कृतः सदा ॥तेन पापेन भो देवि शरीरे महती व्यथा ॥ ७ ॥
In his past life, O Goddess, he cut wood all the time. For that wrong he has great pain in the body.
Classical view, not medical advice.
यतिद्रव्यं गृहीतं च न दत्तं यतिने यतः ॥
He took the ascetic's money and did not give it back. For that reason a son was born to him, through the tie of debt.
द्यूतवेश्यारतो नित्यं पितृमात्रोर्विरोधकृत् ॥
The son always loves gambling and prostitutes, and quarrels with his father and mother. When he becomes a young man, death surely comes.
पुनः पुत्रस्य संदेहः काकबन्ध्यत्वमाप्नुयात् ॥
Then there is doubt about another son. The woman would become a kakavandhya (a woman who has only one child). His wife is a mritavatsa (one whose…