Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 80 · A Brahmin of Ayodhya
पूर्वाषाढा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
प्रयागे यत्कृतं पापं रामपुर्यां विनश्यति ॥अयोध्यायां कृतं पापं वज्रलेपो भविष्यति ॥ १० ॥
Sin done at Prayaga is destroyed at Ramapuri (Rama's city). Sin done at Ayodhya will stick fast, like hard plaster that never comes off.
Classical view, not medical advice.
नरकान्निःसृतो देवि वकयोनावजायत ॥
He came out of hell, O Goddess, and was born a crane. Then he went to a frog's birth, and then a crow's.
पुनर्मानुषयोन्यां वै धनधान्यसमन्वितः ॥
Then he was born in human birth, with wealth and grain. It was in a very holy country, served by gods and gandharvas (heavenly singers).
सर्वविद्यासु विख्यातो गुणज्ञो रूपवांस्तथा ॥
He is famed in all learning, knows good qualities, and is handsome. In the past birth, O Goddess, toward his sister's son's wife,