Shikshasamuccaya 326

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Likewise, countless unmotivated varieties of torments are described for a man who commits sexual misconduct with a man. Likewise, for misconduct with children, he sees boys being swept away in the caustic river. They cry out to him, and he plunges into that river driven by the anguish, grief, and intense attachment to those children. Likewise, sexual misconduct with cows, mares, she-goats, ewes, and the like, is described as intrinsically blameworthy and having harsher fruition: through the vulvas of those very cows, mares, and so on, made of burning iron and fashioned by unwholesome karma, that indulging in animal sex enters. Inside their bellies, filled with a mass of blazing coals, he is steamed and cooked for many hundreds of thousands of years. This should be examined in detail.