Garudapurana 1.104
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1.104.1
en:The glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa—104
Yājñavalkya said: / Arising from hell due to sins, upon the exhaustion of the wicked deed, / a killer of a brāhmaṇa becomes a dog, an ass, a camel, a frog, an owl; and a drinker of liquor
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en:A stealer of gold becomes a worm, an insect; one who violates a guru's bed becomes grass and the like. / He suffers from consumption, has black teeth, diseased nails, and a skin disease;
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en:All these conditions arise in turn from the murder of a brāhmaṇa, or may come upon a child. / A stealer of food becomes deceitful; a stealer of words becomes mute.
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One who steals grain has redundant limbs; a slanderer has a foul-smelling nose; / one who steals oil becomes an oil-drinking creature; and an informer has a foul-smelling mouth.
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By purchasing a maiden with a brahmin's property, one becomes a demonic spirit in the forest, [or] a bull. / One who steals gems is born low-caste; one who steals leaves and vegetables becomes a peacock.
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Stealing a bunch [of flowers or fruit], one becomes a musk-rat; stealing grain, one becomes a mouse. / Stealing fruit, a monkey; stealing livestock, a goat; and likewise for milk, a crow.
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[Stealing] meat, a vulture; [stealing] cloth, a person with leukoderma; a stealer of salt becomes a cricket. / Having attained the fruit according to their actions, [they enter] the animal state through the lapse of time.
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Deformed, poor, vile men are born. / Then, having become free of taint, yogins [are born] in a noble lineage,
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born endowed with auspicious marks and possessed of wealth and grain.
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Thus ends the one hundred and fourth chapter, entitled "The Exposition of the Ripening of Karma as Spoken by Yājñavalkya," in the Section on Conduct, called the first part of the first section, in the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa.
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- Garuḍapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit