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Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 85 · A Brahmin and His Nephew's Jewels
उत्तराषाढा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
भ्रातृजस्य धनं गृह्य व्ययं कृत्वा दिने दिने ॥ततो बहुदिने याते द्विजः पूर्वं मृतः स च ॥ ७ ॥
He took his brother's son's wealth and spent it day by day. After many days the brahmin died first.
Classical view, not medical advice.
पश्चात्पत्नी मृता तस्य तौ गतौ नरकार्णवे ॥
Later his wife died. The two of them went to the ocean of hell. They were tormented with great pain for sixty thousand years.
नरकान्निःसृतौ द्वौ तु गजयोनी बभूवतुः ॥
Coming out of hell, the two were born as elephants. Then they were born as tortoises, and then as monitor lizards.
एवं योनित्रयं भुक्त्वा सरय्या उत्तरे तटे ॥
After these three births, on the north bank of the Sarayu, he got a human birth. He was lucky, and known as a good man. (Our text is unclear here…