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Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 79 · A Salt-Maker and His Wife
मूल नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
तस्य ज्येष्ठः सुतो देवि वेश्यासुरततत्परः ॥एकस्मिन्समये देवि लवणाब्धौ निशामुखे ॥ ४ ॥
His eldest son, O Goddess, was given to prostitutes and love-making. Once, O Goddess, at nightfall, at the salt sea,
Classical view, not medical advice.
स्त्रिया सहाद्रितनये वृषभौ पतितौ तदा ॥
two bulls fell in along with a woman, O daughter of the mountain. He heard of it there then, O Goddess, but he did not go at night.
त्रयाणां वै भवेन्मृत्युः स्वकाले ज्ञातिना सह ॥
All three could have died. Later, at his own time, he went with a relative. He pulled his wife out, but the two bulls died.
ततः सर्वं क्षयो जातं वृद्धे सति वरानने ॥
Then all was ruined when he grew old, O fair-faced one. The salt-maker died, O Parvati. (Our text is unclear here: the word for his death looks…