If a twice born person having studied the four Vedas, becomes stupefied by folly and accepts a gift from a fallen man, he has then 10 take birth in the order of asses.
येन येन तु भावेन कर्मणा पुरुषो गतिम्। प्रयाति परुषां घोरां तत्ते वक्ष्याम्यत: परम्॥