After spending many series of years in the terrible infernal planets, at the end of this period, the great criminals are condemned to subsequent reincarnations, to complete the atonement for their sins.

The murderer of a wise scholar passes into the body of a dog, a wild boar, a donkey, a camel, a bull, a goat, a ram, a wild beast, a bird, a candala [a degraded human being such as the untouchable], and a pukkasa, the lowest of human beings, such as the tramp, depending on the gravity of the crime.

The wise scholar who drinks spirituous liquors will be reborn as an insect, a worm, a grasshopper, a bird that feeds on excrement, and a ferocious animal.

The wise scholar who steals another wise scholar's gold will pass a thousand times through the bodies of spiders, snakes, chameleons, aquatic animals, and evil vampires.

The man who defiles his spiritual master's bed will be reborn a hundred times as a grass, a bush, a vine, a carnivorous bird like the vulture, an animal armed with sharp teeth like the lion, and a ferocious beast like the tiger.

Those who commit acts of cruelty become animals hungry for bloody flesh like cats and felines.

Those who eat forbidden foods become worms, thieves, and beings who devour one another.

Those who court women of the lower social classes become pretas [ghosts].

One who has had relations with degraded men, who has known another's wife, or who has stolen something, but not gold, from a wise scholar, will become a spirit called a brahma-raksasa [a powerful ghost. When a wise scholar becomes a ghost, he becomes a brahma-raksasa].

If a man has stolen precious stones, pearls, coral, or jewelry of various kinds out of greed, he is reborn among goldsmiths, or in the body of the bird called a “hemakâra.”