History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c71.s1.673.4

v5.c71.s1.673.4

The Brahmapurāṇa (chap 217 verses 37-110) contains a long disquisition on the different kinds of animal births that sinners of various kinds have to undergo Vide also Garuḍapurāṇa (Pretakhaṇḍa) 2 60-88, Agni 371 30-32 (which latter states that the murderer of a brāhmaṇa is born as a beast or deer or a dog, hog, or camel, the drinker of wine as an ass or pukkasa or mleccha, the thief of gold as a worm or pest or moth, one guilty of incest as grass or a bush).