Chapter 44

Viṣṇu Smriti 44

Now, for sinful souls who have experienced suffering in the hells, there are births as animals. // Vi_44.1 //

For those who have committed heinous sins, in succession, all the wombs of immovable beings. // Vi_44.2 //

And for great sinners, the wombs of worms. // Vi_44.3 //

For sinners equivalent to great sinners, the wombs of birds. // Vi_44.4 //

For minor sinners, the wombs of aquatic animals. // Vi_44.5 //

For those who have committed sins causing loss of caste, the wombs of amphibians. // Vi_44.6 //

For those who have committed acts causing caste mixture, the wombs of wild animals. // Vi_44.7 //

For those who have committed acts making one unworthy of receiving gifts, the wombs of domestic animals. // Vi_44.8 //

For those who have committed defiling acts, the wombs of untouchables among men. // Vi_44.9 //

For miscellaneous sins, they become various kinds of fierce, carnivorous animals. // Vi_44.10 //

One who eats forbidden food or what ought not to be eaten becomes a worm. // Vi_44.11 //

A thief, a hawk. // Vi_44.12 //

A stealer of a public path becomes a creature living in a hole. // Vi_44.13 //

A grain-thief becomes a rat. // Vi_44.14 //

A stealer of bronze becomes a swan. // Vi_44.15 //

A stealer of water becomes a water-bird. // Vi_44.16 //

Of honey, a gadfly. // Vi_44.17 //

Of milk, a crow. // Vi_44.18 //

Of juice, a dog. // Vi_44.19 //

Of clarified butter, an ichneumon. // Vi_44.20 //

Of meat, a vulture. // Vi_44.21 //

Of fat, a grebe. // Vi_44.22 //

Of oil, an oil-drinking insect. // Vi_44.23 //

Of salt, a cricket. // Vi_44.24 //

Of curd, a crane. // Vi_44.25 //

Stealing silk, one becomes a partridge. // Vi_44.26 //

Linen, a frog. // Vi_44.27 //

Cotton cloth, a curlew. // Vi_44.28 //

A cow, an iguana. // Vi_44.29 //

Molasses, a bat. // Vi_44.30 //

Perfumes, a musk-rat. // Vi_44.31 //

Leafy vegetables, a peacock. // Vi_44.32 //

Cooked food, a porcupine with erectile quills. // Vi_44.33 //

Uncooked food, a porcupine. // Vi_44.34 //

Fire, a crane. // Vi_44.35 //

Household utensils, a house-lizard. // Vi_44.36 //

Red clothes, a Jīvajīvaka bird. // Vi_44.37 //

An elephant, a tortoise. // Vi_44.38 //

A horse, a tiger. // Vi_44.39 //

A fruit or a flower, a monkey. // Vi_44.40 //

A woman, a bear. // Vi_44.41 //

A vehicle, a camel. // Vi_44.42 //

Animals, a vulture. // Vi_44.43 //

A man who forcibly steals another's property, whatever it may be, / Inevitably attains the state of an animal, and also by eating an unoffered oblation. || Vi_44.44 ||

Women also, by this rule, having stolen, incur sin; / They become the wives of these same creatures. || Vi_44.45 ||