History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c89.141

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¹²¹⁶ It was believed in ancient India that diseases and bodily defects were due to sins committed in past lives. Vide H. of Dh Vol. IV pp 174-175 Yāj (III 207 and 209) remarks that the murderer of a brāhmaṇa suffers from tuberculosis after passing through the births of deer, dog, hog, and camel. मृगश्वसूकरोष्ट्राणा ब्रह्महा योनिमृच्छति । ''''ब्रह्महा क्षयरोगी स्यात्सरापः श्यावदन्तकः॥