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VISHNU.
XLV, 13.
13. A stealer of clothes, white leprosy ; 14. A stealer of horses, lameness ;
15. One who pronounces an execration against a god or a Brâhmana, dumbness ;
16. A poisoner, a stammering tongue; 17. An incendiary, madness;
18. One disobedient to a Guru (father), the falling sickness;
19. The killer of a cow, blindness; 20. The stealer of a lamp, the same;
21. One who has extinguished a lamp, blindness with one eye;
22. A seller of tin, chowries, or lead, is born a dyer of cloth;
23. A seller of (horses or other) animals whose foot is not cloven, is born a hunter ;
24. One who eats the food of a person born from adulterous intercourse 1, is born as a man who suffers his mouth to be abused;
25. A thief (of other property than gold), is born a bard;
26. A usurer becomes epileptic;
27. One who eats dainties alone, shall have rheumatics;
28. The breaker of a convention, a bald head;
19. Nand. quotes a text of Satâtapa, from which he infers the use of the particle tu to indicate here, that a killer of his mother shall also be born blind.
21. The particle ka, according to Nand., indicates here, that such persons shall also be afflicted with the morbid affection of the eyes called Timira, as stated by Satâtapa.
24. Nand. says that kundâ sin may also mean one who eats food to the amount of a kunda.' See also Dr. Bühler's note on Gaut. XV, 18.
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