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VISHNU.
XLIV, 31.
31. One who has stolen perfumes, becomes a musk-rat.
32. One who has stolen vegetables, consisting of leaves, becomes a peacock.
33. One who has stolen prepared grain, becomes a (boar called) Svâvidh (or Sedhâ).
34. One who has stolen undressed grain, becomes a porcupine.
35. One who has stolen fire, becomes a crane.
36. One who has stolen household utensils, becomes a wasp (usually called Karata).
37. One who has stolen dyed cloth, becomes a Kakor partridge.
38. One who has stolen an elephant, becomes a tortoise.
39. One who has stolen a horse, becomes a tiger.
40. One who has stolen fruits or blossoms, becomes an ape.
41. One who has stolen a woman, becomes a bear.
42. One who has stolen a vehicle, becomes a camel.
43. One who has stolen cattle, becomes a vulture.
44. He who has taken by force any property belonging to another, or eaten food not first presented to the gods (at the Vaisvadeva offering), inevitably enters the body of some beast.
45. Women, who have committed similar thefts, receive the same ignominious punishment: they lecome females to those male animals.
are names of a large herbivorous bat, usually called the flying fox (in Gagaratî vâgud or vâgul). See Dr. Bühler's note on Gaut. loc. cit.
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