Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 88 · A Brahmin Who Kept a Friend's Wealth
श्रवण नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
रक्षार्थं तेन द्रव्यं च गृहीतं गौतमेन च ॥वाराणस्यां ततो गत्वा तपस्वी प्राणमत्यजत् ॥ ५ ॥
Gautama took the wealth for safekeeping. The ascetic went to Varanasi and gave up his life.
Classical view, not medical advice.
गौतमेन तु स्वद्रव्यं स्थापितं भूमिमध्यके ॥
Gautama buried his own wealth in the ground. But that brahmin's wealth he sold,
भक्षितं तेन विक्रीय बहुवर्षे गते शिवे ॥
and he used it up with his sons and wife, dear one. Many years passed. Then Gautama died, when he was old, O fair-faced one.
गन्धर्वस्य ततो लोकं विंशतिर्वै सहस्रकम् ॥
Then he went to the world of the Gandharvas (heavenly singers) for twenty thousand. He enjoyed it with the Gandharvas and Kinnaras (heavenly…