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account in some places of certain Karmas right or wrong taking their natural consequence in a particular way as enjoyment of pleasures in higher planes or suffering in different forms of life in hell.
1. In the Markandeya Purāņa,1 it is said that if a man accepts money from a fallen person, he is reborn as a donkey. If a man serves as a priest in the case of a fallen person, the priest has to take rebirth as a worm. If a person does not treat his teacher properly, he is reborn as a dog. the wife of his teacher with lust or if teacher, he is reborn as a donkey. compels one to be reborn as a dog. parents, he has to suffer hells and take the birth as a sparrow. If a person thinks un-well of the wife of his brother, he is reborn as a pigeon. If one commits injury in the body of his brother's wife, he is reborn as a tortoise. If one takes money from one's master, but does not serve him properly, he is born as monkey etc.
If a person looks upon he steals the object of his Ill-treatment of parents
If a person threatens his
2. In the Bṛhadnāradīya Purāņa,2 it is stated that a person who behaves against the rules of Varpāśrama and misleads, suffers for three kalpas in different sub human stages of life. There-after he passes 66000 years as worms. Thereafter, he continues to be reborn as a serpent for one kalpa. After that, such a person is reborn for one thousand years as lower animals and then as mlecchhas. After this such a person is born as an illegitimate child for two successive births. Then he is born in the house of a poor Brahmana.3
3. The Naradiya Purāņa gives a brief account of how simple persons take their births after the sufferings of hells. It is said that in the beginning they are reborn seven times as donkeys followed by births for ten times as dog. Thereafter they are reborn as worms in excreta for one hundred years. This is followed
1. Märkandeya Purana, Chapter XV. 2. Bṛhadnardalya Purāṇa, XIV. 73-78. 3. Bihadnaradiya Purāņa XIV. 73-78.
