History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c71.s1.679

v5.c71.s1.679

The smṛtis are not in complete agreement about the diseases or bodily defects that sinners of various grades suffer. For example, though Vas 20 44 and Śaṅkha (*q* by Mit. on Yāj. III. 216) state that the murderer of a brāhmaṇa suffers from leprosy, Manu XI. 49, Yāj III. 209, Viṣṇu Dh. S 45. 3, Agni. 371. 32 aver that he suffers from phthisis. For want of space the long lists of the births as lower animals and the diseases and deformities from which sinners suffer contained in Śaṅkha, Hārīta, Gautama, Yama and the Purāṇas quoted by the Mit. on Yāj III. 216, the Par M. II. part 2 pp. 230-240, 242-272, Madanapārijāta pp 701-702, the Mahārṇava-karmavipāka are passed over here.