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Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 88 · A Brahmin Who Kept a Friend's Wealth
श्रवण नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
गौतमेन तु स्वद्रव्यं स्थापितं भूमिमध्यके ॥तद्द्रव्यं ब्राह्मणस्यैव पुत्रदारयुतेन च ॥ ६ ॥
Gautama buried his own wealth in the ground. But that brahmin's wealth he sold,
Classical view, not medical advice.
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…
ततः पुण्यक्षये जाते हंसयोनिं ततोऽगमत् ॥
When his merit was used up, he went into a swan's birth. After a deer's birth, he got a human birth.