First taking birth in the canine order he has to live for three years.  Casting off the canine form when death comes, he takes birth as a worm or vile vermin.  In this form he has to live for a year.  Leaving that form he succeeds in regaining his status as a human being of the regenerate order.  If the preceptor kills, without reason, his disciple who is even as a son to him, he has, in consequence of such a wilful act of sin on his part, to take birth as a beast of prey.  That son who disregards his father and mother, O king, has to take birth, after leaving off his human form as an animal of the asinine order.  Assuming the asinine form he has to live for ten years.  After that he has to take birth as a crocodile, in which form he has to live for a year.  After that he regains the human form.  That son with whom his parents become angry, has, in consequence of his evil thoughts towards them, to take birth as an ass.  As an ass he has to live for ten months.  He has then to take birth as a dog and to remain as such for four and ten months.  After that he has to take birth as a cat and living in that form for seven months he regains his status of humanity.  Having spoken ill of parents, one has to take birth as a Sarika.  Striking them, one has to take birth, O king, as tortoise.  Living as a tortoise for ten years, he has next to take birth as a porcupine.  After that he has to take birth as a snake, and living for six months in that form he regains the status of humanity.  That man who, while subsisting upon the food that his royal master supplies, commits acts that are injurious to the interests of his master,—­that man, thus stupefied by folly, has after death to take birth as an ape.  For ten years he has to live as an ape, and after that for five years as a mouse.  After that he has to become a dog, and living in that form for a period of six months he succeeds in regaining his status of humanity.  That man who misappropriates what is deposited with him in trustfulness has to undergo a hundred transformations.  He at last takes birth as a vile worm.  In that order he has to live for a period of ten and five years, O Bharata.  Upon the exhaustion of his great demerit in this way, he succeeds in regaining his status of humanity.  That man who harbours malice towards others has, after death, to take birth as a Sarngaka.  That man of wicked understanding who becomes guilty of breach of trust has to take birth as a fish.  Living as a fish for eight years, he takes birth, O Bharata, as a deer.  Living as a deer for four months, he has next to take birth as a goat.  After the expiration of a full year he casts off his goatish body, he takes birth then as a worm.  After that he succeeds in regaining his status of humanity.  That shameless insensate man who, through stupefaction, steals paddy, barley, sesame, Masha, Kulattha, oil-seeds, oats, Kalaya, Mudga, wheat, Atasi, and other kinds of corn, has to take birth as a mouse[511].  After leading the life for some time he has to take birth