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For the maintenance of their bodies and the satisfaction of their tongues, cruel persons cook poor animals and birds alive. …

The killer of a brāhmaṇa is put into the hell known as Kālasūtra, which has a circumference of eighty thousand …

If a person deviates from the path of the Vedas in the absence of an emergency, the servants of Yamarāja …

In his next life, a sinful king or governmental representative who punishes an innocent person, or who inflicts corporal punishment …

By the arrangement of the Supreme Lord, low-grade living beings like bugs and mosquitoes suck the blood of human beings …

A person is considered no better than a crow if after receiving some food, he does not divide it among …

My dear King, a person who in the absence of an emergency robs a brāhmaṇa — or, indeed, anyone else …

A man or woman who indulges in sexual intercourse with an unworthy member of the opposite sex is punished after …

A person who indulges in sex indiscriminately — even with animals — is taken after death to the hell known …

A person who is born into a responsible family — such as a kṣatriya, a member of royalty or a …

The shameless husbands of lowborn śūdra women live exactly like animals, and therefore they have no good behavior, cleanliness or …

If in this life a man of the higher classes [brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya and vaiśya] is very fond of taking his …

A person who in this life is proud of his eminent position, and who heedlessly sacrifices animals simply for material …

If a foolish member of the twice-born classes [brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya and vaiśya] forces his wife to drink his semen out …

In this world, some persons are professional plunderers who set fire to others’ houses or administer poison to them. Also, …

A person who in this life bears false witness or lies while transacting business or giving charity is severely punished …

Any brāhmaṇa or brāhmaṇa’s wife who drinks liquor is taken by the agents of Yamarāja to the hell known as …

A lowborn and abominable person who in this life becomes falsely proud, thinking “I am great,” and who thus fails …

There are men and women in this world who sacrifice human beings to Bhairava or Bhadra Kālī and then eat …

In this life some people give shelter to animals and birds that come to them for protection in the village …