The institutes of Vishnu (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1880)

146

VISH2VU.

XLIV, 31,

31. One who has stolen perfumes, becomes a
musk-rat.
32. One who has stolen vegetables, consisting of
leaves, becomes a peacock.
33. One who has stolen prepared grain, becomes
a (boar called) .Svavidh (or Sedha).
34. One who has stolen undressed grain, be-
comes a porcupine.
35. One who has stolen fire, becomes a crane.
36. One who has stolen household utensils, be-
comes a wasp (usually called Aara/a).
37. One who has stolen dyed cloth, becomes a
Wakor partridge.
38. One who has stolen an elephant, becomes a
tortoise.
39. One who has stolen a horse, becomes a tiger.
40. One who has stolen fruits or blossoms, be-
comes an ape.
41. One who has stolen a woman, becomes a
bear.
42. One who has stolen a vehicle, becomes a
camel.
43. One who has stolen cattle, becomes a vulture.
44. He who has taken by force any property
belonging to another, or eaten food not first pre-
sented to the gods (at the Vahvadeva offering),
inevitably enters the body of some beast.
45. Women, who have committed similar thefts,
receive the same ignominious punishment: they
become females to those male animals.
are names of ‘ a large herbivorous bat, usually called the flying fox
(in Gujarati vagud or vagul).’ See Dr. Buhler’s note on Gaut.
loc. cit._