By stealing a piece of cotton cloth, one becomes a Krauncha bird after renouncing his human body, and O Bharata, stealing a shoulder sheet of cloth, garment made of sheep wool and a piece of linen, one is born as a hare. By stealing different sorts of colouring matter, one is born as a peacock.
क्रौञ्चः कासिकं हृत्वा मृतो जायति मानवः। चोरयित्वा नरः पटें त्वाविकं चैव भारत॥ क्षौमं च वस्त्रमादाय शशो जन्तुः प्रजायते। वर्णान् हृत्वा तु पुरुषो मृतो जायति बर्हिणः॥