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Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 70 · A Brahmin of Sukarma
अनुराधा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
ब्राह्मणा बहवस्तत्र ब्राह्मण्यश्च तथा शिवे ॥मृता ग्रामस्य वै दाहे बह्व्यो गावो मृताः खलु ॥३॥
Many brahmins and brahmin women died there, O Shiva's wife, in the burning of the village. Many cows also died.
Classical view, not medical advice.
ततो बहुतिथे काले मृतः सोऽपि द्विजाधमः ॥
After a long time that lowest of brahmins died too. Then a messenger of Yama (the god of death) took him to a hell of dreadful mud.
यमाज्ञया च निक्षिप्तः कष्टं भुक्तं मुहुर्मुहुः ॥
He was thrown there at the order of Yama (the god of death). He bore pain again and again. Leaving hell, O Goddess, he took an elephant's birth.
कच्छपत्वं ततो यातः काकयोनिस्ततोऽभवत् ॥
Then he became a tortoise, and then a crow. Then he became a man, in a great and fine family.