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12.61. A man who out of greed has stolen gems, pearls or coral, or any of the many other kinds of precious
things, is born among the goldsmiths.
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12.62. For stealing grain (a man) becomes a rat, for stealing yellow metal a Hamsa, for stealing water a Plava,
for stealing honey a stinging insect, for stealing milk a crow, for stealing condiments a dog, for stealing clarified
butter an ichneumon;
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12.63. For stealing meat a vulture, for stealing fat a cormorant, for stealing oil a winged animal (of the kind
called) Tailapaka, for stealing salt a cricket, for stealing sour milk a bird (of the kind called) Balaka.
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12.64. For stealing silk a partridge, for stealing linen a frog, for stealing cotton-cloth a crane, for stealing a cow
an iguana, for stealing molasses a flying-fox;
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12.65. For stealing fine perfumes a musk-rat, for stealing vegetables consisting of leaves a peacock, for stealing
cooked food of various kinds a porcupine, for stealing uncooked food a hedgehog.
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12.66. For stealing fire he becomes a heron, for stealing household-utensils a mason-wasp, for stealing dyed
clothes a francolin-partridge;
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12.67. For stealing a deer or an elephant a wolf, for stealing a horse a tiger, for stealing fruit and roots a
monkey, for stealing a woman a bear, for stealing water a black-white cuckoo, for stealing vehicles a camel, for
stealing cattle a he-goat.
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12.68. That man who has forcibly taken away any kind of property belonging to another, or who has eaten
sacrificial food (of) which (no portion) had been offered, inevitably becomes an animal.
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12.69. Women, also, who in like manner have committed a theft, shall incur guilt; they will become the females
of those same creatures (which have been enumerated above).
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12.70. But (men of the four) castes who have relinquished without the pressure of necessity their proper
occupations, will become the servants of Dasyus, after migrating into despicable bodies.