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Karma Vipaka Samhita · Chapter 102
पूर्वाभाद्रपदा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
This chapter of Karma Vipaka Samhita is for purva bhadrapada 3rd pada. In the story, a brahmin in Gandhara drinks, steals and speaks ill of his parents.
Classical view, not medical advice.
He does no shraddha, and the book says he leaves his old father and mother. Shiva then gives a short remedy: an eighth of the wealth for holy works. A gold image of Ganesha, five pala in weight, is worshipped and given to a brahmin.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
पूर्वाभाद्रपदा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
॥ शिव उवाच ॥गान्धारनगरे देवि ब्राह्मणो वसति प्रिये ॥दयाशर्मा इति ख्यातो मद्यपानरतः सदा ॥ १ ॥
Shiva said: In the city of Gandhara, O Goddess, a brahmin lived, dear one. He was known as Dayasharma. He was always fond of drinking wine.
पूर्वाभाद्रपदा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
वेश्यासुरतसंतृप्तश्चौरकर्मरतः सदा ॥म्लेच्छाचाररतः सोऽपि म्लेच्छान्नं भुज्यते सदा ॥ २ ॥
He enjoyed lovemaking with prostitutes. He was always busy with theft. He followed foreign ways and always ate foreign food.
पूर्वाभाद्रपदा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
धनं तु संचितं तेन म्लेच्छभार्यासु तत्परः ॥श्राद्धकर्मविहीनश्च पितुर्मातुश्च निन्दकः ॥ ३ ॥
He piled up wealth. He was devoted to foreign women. He did no shraddha (rite for the dead ancestors), and he spoke ill of his father and mother.
पूर्वाभाद्रपदा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
एवं बहुगते काले मरणं तस्य जायते ॥महारौद्रं च नामानं नरकं नाम दारुणम् ॥ ४ ॥
After much time had passed, he died. He went to the terrible hell named Maharaurava (the great fierce hell).
पूर्वाभाद्रपदा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
निक्षितः शृङ्खलैर्बद्ध्वा यमदूतैर्यमाज्ञया ॥षष्टिवर्षसहस्राणि भुक्त्वा नरकयातनाम् ॥ ५ ॥
The messengers of Yama (the god of death) threw him in, tied with chains, at Yama's order. He suffered the pains of hell for sixty thousand years. (Our text is unclear here: the word for chained is not fully clear.)
पूर्वाभाद्रपदा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
नरकान्निःसृतो देवि गोधायोनिरभूत्पुरा ॥सरटस्य पुनर्योनिं चटकत्वं ततोऽभवत् ॥ ६ ॥
Coming out of hell, O Goddess, he was first born as a monitor lizard. Next he was born as a lizard. Then he became a sparrow.
पूर्वाभाद्रपदा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
मानुषत्वं ततो लेभे मध्यदेशे वरानने ॥धनधान्यसमायुक्तो वंशहीनो महेश्वरि ॥ ७ ॥
Then he got a human birth in the middle country, O fair-faced one. He is rich in wealth and grain, but has no family line, O Great Goddess.
पूर्वाभाद्रपदा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
पूर्वजन्मनि देवेशि ब्राह्मणत्वं यतोऽत्यजत् ॥तत्पापेनैव भो देवि पुत्रस्य मरणं मुहुः ॥ ८ ॥
In a past birth, O Lady of the gods, he gave up being a brahmin. By that wrong, O Goddess, his son dies again and again.
पूर्वाभाद्रपदा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
अनेन पितरौ वृद्धौ त्यक्तौ दुर्मतिना यतः ॥अतः शरीरे वै रोगः काकवन्ध्या सहव्रणा ॥ ९ ॥
This fool left his old father and mother. So he has illness in the body. His wife is a kakavandhya (a woman who has only one child), and she has sores.
पूर्वाभाद्रपदा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
शान्तिं शृणु वरारोहे यतः पुत्रो हि जायते ॥गृहवित्ताष्टमं भागं पुण्यकार्यं च कारयेत् ॥ १० ॥
Hear the remedy, O fair one, by which a son is born. He should do holy works with one eighth of the wealth of his house.
पूर्वाभाद्रपदा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
पलपञ्चसुवर्णस्य गणाध्यक्षस्य चाकृतिम् ॥कृत्वा वै पूजयेद्देवि मन्त्रेणानेन सुव्रते ॥ ११ ॥
He should make a golden image of Ganesha (the lord of Shiva's hosts) of five pala (a unit of weight). Then he should worship it, O keeper of vows, with this mantra (sacred words).
पूर्वाभाद्रपदा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
गणाध्यक्ष सुरेशान सर्वोपद्रवनाशन ॥मम पूर्वकृतं पापं हर दुःखनिवारण ॥ १२ ॥
"O Lord of the hosts, Lord of the gods, destroyer of every trouble. Take away my past wrong, O remover of sorrow."
पूर्वाभाद्रपदा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
एवं कृत्वा विधानं च ब्राह्मणाय समर्पयेत् ॥ततो भवति वंशश्च व्याधिनाशश्च जायते ॥ १३ ॥
After doing the rite, he should give the image to a brahmin. Then a family line is born, and illness is destroyed.
Verse 102.11 says Ganesha, the lord of Shiva's hosts, in gold of five pala.
Verse 102.12 asks the Lord of the hosts to take away the past wrong, the remover of sorrow.