Mahabharata Bibliomancy Reading
This oracle randomly points to a line from one of sacred books of Mahabharata. The surrounding lines are also provided for context.
Your passage is from BOOK 13 - ANUSASANA PARVA - SECTION CI.
For three hundred times he has to sink into hell and become transformed into an animal that subsists upon human ordure.
Surrounding Context from
BOOK 13 - ANUSASANA PARVA - SECTION CI
The king who had stolen the kine belonging to a Brahmana obtained an infamous end.
Hence, one should never steal or appropriate anything that belongs to a Brahmana.
Behold to what state I am reduced in consequence of my having eaten food that had been sprinkled over with milk belonging to a Brahmana!
It is for this reason that Soma plants become unsaleable by a person possessed of wisdom.
They who sell the Soma plant are censured by the wise.
Indeed, O son, they who purchase Soma and they who sell it, both sink in the hell called Raurava when, departing from this world, they repair to the region of Yama.
That man who, possessing a knowledge of the Vedas, duly sells Soma, becomes in his next life a usurer and quickly meets with destruction.
For three hundred times he has to sink into hell and become transformed into an animal that subsists upon human ordure.
Serving a person that is vile and low, pride, and rape upon a friend's wife, if weighed against one another in a balance, would show that pride, which transcends all restraints, is the heaviest.
Behold this dog, so sinful and disagreeably pale and lean!
(He was a human being in his former life).
It is through pride that living creatures attain to such a miserable end.
As regards myself, I was born in a large family, in a former birth of mine, O lord, and I was a thorough master of all branches of knowledge and all the sciences.
I knew the gravity of all these faults, but influenced by pride, I became blinded and ate the meat attached to the vertebral columns of animals.
In consequence of such conduct and such food, I have come to this state.
