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Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 92 · A Farmer and His Sister's Son
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
॥ शिव उवाच ॥देशे पञ्चनदे देवि गङ्गानाम्नी पुरी शुभा ॥वसन्ति सर्वे वै वर्णा ब्राह्मणाः क्षत्रिया विशः ॥ १ ॥
Shiva said: In the land of five rivers, O Goddess, there is a good city named Ganga. All the classes live there: brahmins, kshatriyas (warrior class) and vaishyas (trader class).
Classical view, not medical advice.
स्वकर्मनिरताः सर्वे वर्णाचारसमाश्रिताः ॥
All were devoted to their own duties and followed the ways of their classes. Among them was one brahmin, always busy with farming.
एकस्मिन्समये तदीयभगिनीपुत्रो गृहे भिक्षुकः
Once his sister's son came to his house at night as a beggar, hungry. The wicked man struck him with a stick. By morning the sister's son was…
यमदूतैर्महादेवि निक्षिप्तो नरकार्णवे ॥
The messengers of Yama (the god of death) threw him into an ocean of hell, O great Goddess. He stayed there eighty-eight thousand years.