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Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 75 · A Weaver and a Sparrow's Nest
ज्येष्ठा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
गङ्गायां मरणं जातं भार्यया सहितस्य वै ॥स्वर्गवासोऽभवद्देवि पट्टकारस्य सुव्रते ॥ ९ ॥
He died in the Ganga together with his wife. The weaver went to heaven, O good-vowed one.
Classical view, not medical advice.
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,
पूर्वजन्मस्थिता भार्या सा तस्य गृहमेधिनी ॥
his wife from the past birth became his housewife. She had servants, but she lost her baby again and again.