History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c95.263

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its own mother from among thousands of cows, so karma done in a previous life pursues the doer of it.' The Āśvamedhika-²⁵⁴⁸ parva asserts that there is no destruction of good and evil actions; they ripen and produce results when the self passes from one body to another. The Śāntiparva (cr ed. 316. 25 and 35 = ch. ed. 329 25, 35) avers 'a man by performing good deeds secures the state of a god, he is reborn as a human being by actions of a mixed character (good and evil both) and he is born as lower (than man) by evil deeds, when you (yourself) start after death no one will follow you, only your good or evil deeds will follow you when you leave this world'