Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 108 · A Hunter of Magadha
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.
Classical view, not medical advice.
गृहवित्तषडंशेन पुण्यकार्यं च कारयेत् ॥
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)…
दशायुतजपं कुर्याद्दशांशं हवनं ततः ॥
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…
ततो वै भोजयेद्भक्त्या द्विजान् देवि दशांशतः ॥
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…