Chapter 45

Viṣṇu Smriti 45

For those who have passed through the state of animals after suffering in hell, there are marks in their human birth. // Vi_45.1 //

A heinous sinner becomes a leper. // Vi_45.2 //

A Brāhmaṇa-killer becomes consumptive. // Vi_45.3 //

A liquor-drinker becomes one with black teeth. // Vi_45.4 //

A gold-thief becomes one with bad nails. // Vi_45.5 //

One who violates his preceptor's bed becomes one with a skin disease. // Vi_45.6 //

A slanderer becomes one with a foul-smelling nose. // Vi_45.7 //

An informer becomes one with a foul-smelling mouth. // Vi_45.8 //

A grain-thief becomes one with a missing limb. // Vi_45.9 //

A thief of mixed goods becomes one with a superfluous limb. // Vi_45.10 //

A stealer of food becomes diseased. // Vi_45.11 //

A stealer of speech becomes mute. // Vi_45.12 //

A stealer of clothes becomes one with vitiligo. // Vi_45.13 //

A stealer of a horse becomes lame. // Vi_45.14 //

One who reviles a god or a Brāhmaṇa becomes mute. // Vi_45.15 //

A poisoner becomes one with a lolling tongue. // Vi_45.16 //

An incendiary becomes mad. // Vi_45.17 //

One who is hostile to his teacher becomes epileptic. // Vi_45.18 //

A cow-killer becomes blind. // Vi_45.19 //

And a stealer of a lamp. // Vi_45.20 //

And one who extinguishes a lamp becomes one-eyed. // Vi_45.21 //

A seller of tin, a chowrie, or lead becomes a dyer. // Vi_45.22 //

A seller of animals with uncloven hoofs becomes a hunter. // Vi_45.23 //

One who eats the food of an adulterer's son becomes one with a diseased anus. // Vi_45.24 //

A thief becomes a bell-ringer. // Vi_45.25 //

A usurer becomes one afflicted with a skin disease causing circular spots. // Vi_45.26 //

One who eats dainties alone becomes one with a wind-tumor. // Vi_45.27 //

A breaker of an agreement becomes bald. // Vi_45.28 //

An avakīrṇin becomes one with elephantiasis. // Vi_45.29 //

One who destroys another's livelihood becomes poor. // Vi_45.30 //

One who causes pain to others becomes chronically ill. // Vi_45.31 //

Thus, according to their specific deeds, they are born with marks, / Afflicted with diseases, and also blind, hunchbacked, lame, and one-eyed, || Vi_45.32 ||

Dwarfish, deaf, mute, and weak, and others likewise. / Therefore, with all effort, one should perform prāyaścitta. || Vi_45.33 ||