Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 93 · A Brahmin Who Left His Duties
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
नरकान्निःसृतो देवि ग्राहयोनिरभूत्पुरा ॥पुनः कच्छपयोनिश्च मानुषत्वं ततोऽभवत् ॥ ७ ॥
Coming out of hell, O Goddess, he was born a crocodile. Then he was born a tortoise, and then he got a human birth.
Classical view, not medical advice.
पूर्वजन्मनि भो देवि ब्राह्मणत्वं यतोऽत्यजत् ॥
In the past birth, O Goddess, he gave up being a brahmin. So he has no son, O Goddess, and no daughter is born.
म्लेच्छान्नं भुज्यते देवि संध्यां च तर्पणं विना ॥
He ate outsiders' food, O Goddess, without the twilight prayers and without tarpana (water offering to the ancestors and gods). So he is always full…
शान्तिं शृणु वरारोहे पूर्वपापप्रणाशिनीम् ॥
Listen to the remedy that destroys the past sin, O fair-hipped one. A bright house, full of wealth and grain,