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Karma Vipaka Samhita · Chapter 108
रेवती नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
This chapter of Karma Vipaka Samhita is for revati 1st pada. In the story, a hunter in Magadha meets his daily spending with deer meat.
Classical view, not medical advice.
The book also says that in a past life he gave gifts of water, so he is born rich. Shiva then gives the remedy: a sixth of the wealth, a hundred thousand japa and a feast. A gold garland with a Meru bead and a gift of a bed follow.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
रेवती नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
॥ शिव उवाच ॥मगधे विषये देवि लुब्धको वसति प्रिये ॥प्रत्यहं मृगमांसेन व्ययं कुर्याद्दिने दिने ॥ १ ॥
Shiva said: In the land of Magadha, O Goddess, a hunter lived, dear one. Every day he met his spending with deer meat.
रेवती नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
एवं सर्वं वयो जातं वृद्धे सति वरानने ॥मरणं तस्य वै जातं यमदूतैर्यमाज्ञया ॥ २ ॥
So his whole life passed, and he grew old, O fair-faced one. Then he died. The messengers of Yama (the god of death) took him at Yama's order.
रेवती नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
निक्षिप्तो नरके घोरे षष्टिवर्षसहस्रकम् ॥भुक्तं विविधजं दुःखं कृमिसूचीमुखैर्युतम् ॥ ३ ॥
He was thrown into a terrible hell for sixty thousand years. He suffered many kinds of pain, from worms with mouths like needles.
रेवती नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
नरकान्निःसृतो देवि मृगत्वं जायते खलु ॥शृगालस्य ततो योनिं छागयोनिस्ततोऽभवत् ॥ ४ ॥
Coming out of hell, O Goddess, he was born as a deer. Then he was a jackal. Then he was a goat.
रेवती नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
मानुषत्वं ततो जातं धनधान्यसमन्वितम् ॥पूर्वजन्मनि देवेशि जलदानं च वै कृतम् ॥ ५ ॥
Then he got a human birth, with wealth and grain. In a past life, O Queen of the gods, he had given gifts of water.
रेवती नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
धनाढ्यत्वं पुनर्जातो ह्यपुत्रो मृगताडनात् ॥पुत्राश्च बहवो जाता मरणं तेषु जायते ॥ ६ ॥
He was born rich again, but he has no son, because he beat deer. Many sons are born, and they die.
रेवती नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
रोगाणां च तथोत्पत्तिर्ज्वरश्चैव पुनः पुनः ॥शान्तिं शृणु वरारोहे पूर्वपापप्रणाशिनीम् ॥ ७ ॥
Illness arises in him, and fever again and again. Hear the remedy, O fair one, which destroys the past wrong.
रेवती नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
गृहवित्तषडंशेन पुण्यकार्यं च कारयेत् ॥गायत्र्या वा शिवायेति जातवेदेति वै पुनः ॥ ८ ॥
He should do holy works with one sixth of his household wealth. He uses the Gayatri (a sacred Vedic chant), or the 'Shivaya' mantra (sacred words). Or he uses the 'Jatavedas' (a name of the fire god) mantra.
रेवती नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
दशायुतजपं कुर्याद्दशांशं हवनं ततः ॥दशांशं तर्पणं देवि मार्जनं तद्दशांशतः ॥ ९ ॥
He should do a hundred thousand (ten times ten thousand) japa (repeating a mantra). Then a homa (fire offering) of one tenth of that. Then a tarpana (water offering to the ancestors and gods) of one tenth, O Goddess. Then marjana (sprinkling) of one tenth of that.
रेवती नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
ततो वै भोजयेद्भक्त्या द्विजान् देवि दशांशतः ॥दशवर्णां ततो दद्याद्वृषभं भूषितं शुभम् ॥ १० ॥
Then he should feed brahmins with devotion, one tenth of that, O Goddess. Then he should give a dashavarna (a gift of ten colours) and a fine, decorated bull.
रेवती नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
पलपञ्चसुवर्णस्य माल्यं मेरुयुतं तु वै ॥ब्राह्मणाय ततो दद्याच्छय्यादानमनन्तरम् ॥ ११ ॥
He should give a brahmin a garland of five pala (a unit of weight) of gold. It has a Meru (the head bead). Right after that comes a gift of a bed.
रेवती नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
एवं कृते वरारोहे पुत्रः खलु प्रजायते ॥व्याधयः संक्षयं यान्ति काकवन्ध्या लभेत्सुतम् ॥ १२ ॥
When this is done, O fair one, a son is truly born. Illness is destroyed. A kakavandhya (a woman who has only one child) gets a son.
Verse 108.8 names the Gayatri, the Shivaya mantra, or the Jatavedas mantra.
Verse 108.5 says he had given gifts of water.