• various companies of Apfarafes or nymphs,

are the highest of those forms, which the quality of paffion attains.

48. Hermits, religious mendicants, other Bráhmens, fuch orders of demigods as are wafted in airy cars, genii of the figns and lunar manfions, and Daityas, or the offspring of DITI, are the loweft of ftates procured by the quality of goodness:

49. Sacrificers, holy fages, deities of the lower heaven, genii of the Védas, regents of • ftars not in the paths of the fun and moon, divinities of years, Pitris or progenitors of mankind, and the demigods, named Sádhyas, are the middle forms, to which the good quality conveys all Spirits moderately endued

• with it:

50.

• BRAHMA' with four faces, creators of • worlds under him, as MARICHI and others, the genius of virtue, the divinities prefiding over (two principles of nature in the philofophy of CAPILA) mahat, or the mighty, and avyacta, or unperceived, are the highest conditions, to which, by the good quality, fouls are exalted. 51. This triple fyftem of tranfmigrations, in which each clafs has three orders, according to actions of three kinds, and which comprifes all animated beings, has been revealed. in its full extent;

52. Thus, by indulging the fenfual appetites, and by neglecting the performance of duties, the bafeft of men, ignorant of facred expiations, affume the bafeft forms.

53: • WHAT particular bodies the vital spirit enters in this world, and in confequence of what fins here committed, now hear at large • and in order.

54. Sinners in the first degree, having paffed through terrible regions of torture for a great number of years, are condemned to ⚫ the following births at the close of that period to efface all remains of their fin.

55. The flayer of a Bráhmen must enter according to the circumstances of his crime the body of a dog, a boar, an afs, a camel, a bull, a goat, a fheep, a ftag, a bird, a Chandála, or a • Puccafa.

56. A prieft, who has drunk spirituous liquor, fhall migrate into the form of a 'fmaller or larger worm or infect, of a moth, of a fly feeding on ordure, or of fome raven'ous animal.

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57. He, who steals the gold of a priest, 'fhall pass a thousand times into the bodies of fpiders, of fnakes and cameleons, of crocodiles and other aquatick monsters, or of mischievous 'blood fucking demons.

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58. He, who violates the bed of his natural

or fpiritual father, migrates a hundred times into the forms of graffes, of shrubs with • crowded stems, or of creeping and twining plants, of vultures and other carnivorous animals, of lions and other beafts with fharp teeth, 'or of tigers and other cruel brutes.

59. They who hurt any fentient beings,

' are born cats and other eaters of raw flesh; they, who tafte what ought not to be tasted, maggots or small flies; they, who steal ordinary things, devourers of each other: they 'who embrace very low women, become reftlefs ghosts.

60. He, who has held intercourfe with degraded men, or been criminally connected with the wife of another, or ftolen common things from a priest, shall be changed into a 'fpirit, called Brahmarácfhafa.

61.

The wretch, who through covetouf• nefs has ftolen rubies or other gems, pearls, or coral, or precious things of which there are

many forts, shall be born in the tribe of goldSmiths, or among birds called hémacaras, or goldmakers.

62. If a man fteal grain in the husk, he

fhall be born a rat; if a yellow mixed metal,

'a gander; if water, a plava, or diver; if

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honey, a great ftinging gnat; if milk, a crow; ' if expreffed juice, a dog; if clarified butter, an •ichneumon weafel;

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63. If he fteal flefhmeat, a vulture; if any fort of fat, the water-bird madgu; if oil, a blatta, or oildrinking beetle; if falt, a cicada ' or cricket; if curds, the bird valáca ;

64. If filken clothes, the bird tittiri; if woven flax, a frog; if cotton cloth, the

• waterbird crauncha; if a cow, the lizard • gódbá; if molaffes, the bird vágguda;

65. If exquilite perfumes, a mufkrat; if potherbs, a peacock; if dreffed grain in any of • its various forms, a porcupine; if raw grain, a hedgehog ;

66. If he steal fire, the bird vaca; if a household utefinl, an ichneumon-fly; if dyed cloth, the bird chacóra;

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67. If a deer or an elephant, he fhall ⚫ be born a wolf; if a horse, a tiger; if roots or ‹ fruit, an ape; if a woman, a bear; if water • from a jar, the bird chátaca; if carriages, a • camel; if fmall cattle, a goat.

68. That man, who defignedly takes away the property of another, or eats any holy 'cakes not first prefented to the deity at a folemn rite, fhall inevitably fink to the con'dition of a brute.

69. Women, who have committed fimilar

thefts, incur a fimilar taint, and fhall be paired with thofe male beafts in the form of their females.

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70. 'If any of the four claffes omit, without

urgent neceffity, the performance of their ' several duties, they fhall migrate into finful bodies, and become flaves to their foes.

71.

Should a Bráhmen omit his peculiar duty, he shall be changed into a demon called Ulcámuc'ha or with a mouth like a firebrand, 'who devours what has been vomited; a Chatriya, into a demon called Catapútana, who • feeds on ordure and carrion;

72. A Vailya, into an evil being called Maitráchajyótica, who eats purulent carcaffes; and a Súdra, who neglects his occupations, 'becomes a foul imbodied fpirit called Chailá'faca, who feeds on lice.

73. As far as vital fouls, addicted to fenfuality, indulge themselves in forbidden pleafures, even to the fame degree fhall the acutenefs of their fenfes be raised in their future bodies, that they may endure analogous pains;

74. And, in confequence of their folly, they fhall be doomed as often as they repeat their criminal acts, to pains more and more intense in defpicable forms on this earth.

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75. They fhall first have a sensation of agony in Támifra or utter darkness, and in • other feats of horrour; in Afipatravana, or * the fwordleaved foreft, and in different places ⚫ of binding faft and of rending:

76. Multifarious tortures await them: they

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