Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 75 · A Weaver and a Sparrow's Nest
ज्येष्ठा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
कुलं तस्याकरोन्नष्टं बालानां हननेन सः ॥एवं बहुगते काले पट्टकारस्य सुव्रते ॥ ८ ॥
He destroyed her brood by killing the young ones. Much time went by for the weaver, O good-vowed one.
Classical view, not medical advice.
गङ्गायां मरणं जातं भार्यया सहितस्य वै ॥
He died in the Ganga together with his wife. The weaver went to heaven, O good-vowed one.
सप्ततिर्वै सहस्राणि स्वयं भुक्त्वा फलं बहु ॥
He enjoyed much fruit there himself for seventy thousand years. Then his merit ran out, and he fell from heaven. (Our text is unclear here: the…
मनुष्यश्चाऽभवद्देवि गङ्गागण्डकिमध्ययोः ॥
He became a man between the Ganga and the Gandaki, O Goddess. He had wealth and grain. When he married,