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Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 79 · A Salt-Maker and His Wife
मूल नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
त्रयाणां वै भवेन्मृत्युः स्वकाले ज्ञातिना सह ॥भार्या निःसारिता तेन वृषभौ मृत्युसंयुतौ ॥ ६ ॥
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.
Classical view, not medical advice.
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…
यमदूतैर्महाघोरैर्नरके घोरसंज्ञके ॥
Very dreadful messengers of Yama (the god of death) threw him into the hell named Ghora, O Goddess. It was for twenty-two thousand years.
वर्षं सुभुज्यते देवि कृमिसूचिमुखैर्युतम् ॥
He suffered it there, O Goddess, for years, with worms that had needle-sharp mouths. He came out of hell and was born a tiger.