Friends:
Those who steals and cheat takes Hungry Ghost Rebirth!
Those who steal food & who are too lazy for doing good deeds,
become
corpse or menstruation eating Ghosts, and abortion eating Ghosts (Peta).
Whatsoever are engaged in low praxis, mean, miserly, avaricious,
stingy,
& the constantly greedy are reborn after death as swollen neck
Ghosts...
Whoever prevents others from giving & does not himself gives
anything,
becomes an ever hungry & thirsty Ghost, needle-mouthed &
big-bellied...
Whoever clings to his wealth only for his family, but who neither
enjoys
nor shares it, is reborn as ghost eating only what is given, such
as things
given at funerals... Whoever longs to steal anothers property, but
then
later regrets it, is reborn as a peta feeding on excrement, pus &
vomit...
Whoever speaks aggressively, angry, words hitting like daggers,
becomes
a ghost with mouth like a furnace burning fiercely with red coals
& ashes...
And whoever is cruel minded, without sympathy and quarrelsome,
would
become a fiery ghost eating worms, leeches, insects, crabs and
beetles...
Source (edited extract):
Pańcagatidipani by Ashvaghosa & Saddhammaghosa: 11-12th century
AC.
Tr. by Ann A. Hazlewood. Journal of the Pali Text Society. Vol. XI
1987:
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=132714
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More details on the Peta (ghost) destination:
From the Tipitaka: Minor Anthologies Vol 4, Vimanavatthu &
Petavatthu
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=130738
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... vatthu.htm
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