A Brahmana who drinks (the spirituous liquor called) Sura shall enter (the bodies) of small and large insects, of moths, of birds, feeding on ordure, and of destructive beasts.
लूताऽहिसरटानां च तिरश्चां चाम्बुचारिणाम् । हिंस्राणां च पिशाचानां स्तेनो विप्रः सहस्रशः ॥ ५७ ॥
A Brahmana who steals (the gold of a Brahmana shall pass) a thousand times (through the bodies) of spiders, snakes and lizards, of aquatic animals and of destructive Pisakas.
The violator of a Guru’s bed (enters) a hundred times (the forms) of grasses, shrubs, and creepers, likewise of carnivorous (animals) and of (beasts) with fangs and of those doing cruel deeds.
Men who delight in doing hurt (become) carnivorous (animals); those who eat forbidden food, worms; thieves, creatures consuming their own kind; those who have intercourse with women of the lowest castes, Pretas.
संयोगं पतितैर्गत्वा परस्यैव च योषितम् । अपहृत्य च विप्रस्वं भवति ब्रह्मराक्षसः ॥ ६० ॥
He who has associated with outcasts, he who has approached the wives of other men, and he who has stolen the property of a Brahmana become Brahmarakshasas.