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XLV.
1. Now after having undergone the torments inflicted in the hells, and having passed through the animal bodies, the sinners are born as human beings with (the following) marks (indicating their crime):
2. A criminal in the highest degree shall have leprosy;
3. A killer of a Brâhmana, pulmonary consumption;
4. A drinker of spirits, black teeth;
5. A stealer of gold (belonging to a Brâhmana), deformed nails;
6. A violator of his spiritual teacher's bed, a disease of the skin;
7. A calumniator, a stinking nose;
8. A malignant informer, stinking breath;
9. A stealer of grain, a limb too little;
10. One who steals by mixing (i. e. by taking good grain and replacing the same amount of bad grain in its stead), a limb too much;
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