Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.30.34
SB 3.30.34
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adhastān nara-lokasya yāvatīr yātanādayaḥ kramaśaḥ samanukramya punar atrāvrajec chuciḥ
Translation
Having gone through all the miserable, hellish conditions and having passed in a regular order through the lowest forms of animal life prior to human birth, and having thus been purged of his sins, one is reborn again as a human being on this earth.