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Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 76 · A Clerk and a Brahmin's Gold
मूल नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
आगतो वै गृहे तस्य प्रेम्णा मित्रस्य भामिनि ॥चातुर्मास्ये स्थितस्तत्र स्वर्णं शतपलं तदा ॥ ४ ॥
That brahmin came to his friend's house with love, O lady. He stayed there through the four months of the rains, with a hundred pala (a unit of weight) of gold.
Classical view, not medical advice.
कायस्थस्य गृहे तत्तु स्थापितं ब्राह्मणेन वै ॥
The brahmin left that gold in the clerk's house. Then that best of brahmins went to Varanasi to bathe, O Goddess.
शरीरं त्यक्तवाँस्तत्र ब्रह्मचारी द्विजस्तदा ॥
There that brahmin, a celibate student, left his body. After much time, the scribe became poor.
तद्धनं ब्राह्मणस्यैव भुक्तं तेन वरानने ॥
O fair-faced one, he used up that brahmin's wealth. The clerk and his wife became a morsel for the snake of Time.