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Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 79 · A Salt-Maker and His Wife
मूल नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
ततः सर्वं क्षयो जातं वृद्धे सति वरानने ॥मरणं तस्य वै जातं लवणकारस्य पार्वति ॥ ७ ॥
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 broken in print.)
Classical view, not medical advice.
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.
पुनश्छागस्य वै योनिं बिडालस्य ततोऽगमत् ॥
Then he went to a goat's birth, and then a cat's. Then he got human birth in a very holy and good country.