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Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 99 · A Merchant's Unpaid Loan
शतभिषा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
दरिद्रत्वं भवेद्देवि दरिद्रत्वात्सुपीडितः ॥शतं पञ्च ऋणं नीतं ब्राह्मणस्य सुरेश्वरि ॥ ४ ॥
Poverty came, O Goddess, and he was badly troubled by it. He took a loan of a hundred and five from a brahmin, O queen of the gods.
Classical view, not medical advice.
व्यापारार्थं विशालाक्षि न दत्तं ब्राह्मणाय वै ॥
For trade, O large-eyed one, it was not repaid to the brahmin. After a long time passed, he had used it all.
वैश्यस्यैव भवेन्मृत्युः सभार्यस्य वरानने ॥
The merchant died, together with his wife, O fair-faced one. At Mathura he gained a fine, good heaven.
दशलक्षमितं स्वर्गे फलं भुक्त्वा वरानने ॥
He enjoyed the fruit in heaven for a span of ten hundred thousand, O fair-faced one. Then, together with his wife, when the merit was used up again,