Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 81 · A Merchant and a Friend's Goods
पूर्वाषाढा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
पत्न्या सह वरारोहे भुक्त्वा स्वर्गफलं ततः ॥बकयोनिं ततो लेभे चक्रवाकस्ततोऽभवत् ॥ ७ ॥
With his wife, O fair one, after enjoying the fruit of heaven, he got a crane's birth. Then he became a ruddy goose.
Classical view, not medical advice.
हंसयोन्यां ततो जातो मानुषत्वं ततोऽगमत् ॥
Then he was born a swan, and then he went to human birth. Because of the old tie, past merit and her faithfulness as a wife,
पुनर्विवाहिता देवि ब्राह्मणस्वापहारतः ॥
she was married to him again, O Goddess. Because the brahmin's goods were taken, that woman became a vandhya (a woman who cannot bear children). She…
तस्य देहेऽभवद्व्याधिः कफवातसमन्वितः ॥
In his body came an illness with phlegm and wind. He is rich, but daughters are born again and again.