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Karma Vipaka Samhita · Chapter 110
रेवती नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
This chapter of Karma Vipaka Samhita is for revati 3rd pada. In the story, a brahmin who carries jewels stays a month with his friend, a salt-maker.
Classical view, not medical advice.
The salt-maker's wife gives the brahmin poison, and the salt-maker takes his wealth. The book says he is later born with wealth, because he died at Kurukshetra. Shiva then gives the remedy: an eighth of the wealth and homa in a square pit. A cow with her calf and a feast follow.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
रेवती नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
॥ शिव उवाच ॥माणिक्ये च पुरे देवि वसन्ति बहवो जनाः ॥लवणकृद्वसत्येको प्रत्यहं लवणं कृतम् ॥ १ ॥
Shiva said: In the city of Manikya, O Goddess, many people live. One salt-maker lived there, who made salt every day.
रेवती नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
लवणं विक्रयेन्नित्यं व्ययं कृत्वा दिने दिने ॥तस्य मित्रं द्विजः कश्चिदागतस्तस्य वै गृहे ॥ २ ॥
He sold salt every day and lived on it. A brahmin, his friend, came to his house.
रेवती नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
धनाढ्यो रत्नसंयुक्तस्तत्र वासमकारयत् ॥आदरं बहुसन्मानं कृत्वा मित्रेण वै शिवे ॥ ३ ॥
The friend was rich and carried jewels. He stayed there, and his friend honoured him greatly, O Shiva's wife.
रेवती नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
पत्नी शूद्रस्य वै हृष्टा पुंश्चली चपला तु सा ॥मासमेकं वरारोहे तस्य मित्रस्य वै स्थितिः ॥ ४ ॥
The wife of that shudra (servant class) man was lively, loose and fickle. The friend stayed for one month, O fair one.
रेवती नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
मित्रपत्न्या विषं दत्तं ब्राह्मणाय तदा शिवे ॥ब्राह्मणेन च न ज्ञातं भोजनाभ्यन्तरे तथा ॥ ५ ॥
Then the friend's wife gave poison to the brahmin, O Shiva's wife. The brahmin did not know it was inside his food.
रेवती नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
ब्राह्मणस्याभवन्मृत्युरर्द्धरात्रे गते सति ॥नद्यां शवं ततस्त्यक्त्वा समगृह्णाच्च तद्धनम् ॥ ६ ॥
The brahmin died when half the night had passed. The body was thrown into the river, and the shudra took his wealth.
रेवती नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
ब्राह्मणार्थं च संगृह्य कृतं व्ययमहर्निशम् ॥भार्यया सह पुत्राभ्यां भुक्त्वा द्रव्यं वरानने ॥ ७ ॥
He took the brahmin's wealth and spent it day and night. With his wife and two sons he enjoyed that wealth, O fair-faced one.
रेवती नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
ततो वृद्धे च वयसि मरणं समजायत ॥पश्चान्मृता तु सा भार्या कुलटा व्यभिचारिणी ॥ ८ ॥
Then in old age he died. Afterwards his wife, an unfaithful, loose woman, died too.
रेवती नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
यमदूतैर्महाघोरे नरके पङ्कसंज्ञके ॥कुम्भीपाके तदा देवि निक्षिप्तश्च यमाज्ञया ॥ ९ ॥
The messengers of Yama (the god of death) threw him into a very terrible hell, called Panka (mud). It was Kumbhipaka (the hell where sinners are cooked in pots), O Goddess. This was at Yama's order.
रेवती नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
युगमेकं विशालाक्षि भुक्त्वा नरकयातनाम् ॥नरकान्निःसृतो देवि सूकरत्वं प्रजायते ॥ १० ॥
He suffered the pains of hell for one yuga (age), O wide-eyed one. Coming out of hell, O Goddess, he is born as a pig.
रेवती नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
पुनः काकस्य वै योनिं बिडालत्वं ततोऽभवत् ॥मानुषत्वं ततो देवि देशे शुभ्रे तदाऽभवत् ॥ ११ ॥
Then he became a crow. Then he became a cat. Then he became a man in a fine country, O Goddess. (Our text is unclear here: one mark in the last line is not clear.)
रेवती नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
पूर्वजन्मनि देवेशि कुरुक्षेत्रे यतो मृतः ॥अतो धनं भवत्तस्य नाऽपत्यं द्विजहत्यया ॥ १२ ॥
In a past birth, O Queen of the gods, he died at Kurukshetra. So he has wealth. But he has no child, because he killed a brahmin.
रेवती नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
शरीरे जायते व्याधिर्भार्या तस्य मृतप्रजा ॥अस्य पापस्य शमनीं शान्तिं शृणु वरानने ॥ १३ ॥
Illness comes in his body. His wife has children who die. Hear the remedy, O fair-faced one, that quiets this wrong.
रेवती नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
गृहवित्ताष्टमं भागं ब्राह्मणाय समर्पयेत् ॥हवनं कारयेद्देवि कुण्डे योनिसुशोभिते ॥ १४ ॥
He should give one eighth of his household wealth to a brahmin. He should have a homa (fire offering) done, O Goddess. The fire pit is well made, with a yoni (the womb-shaped lip of the pit).
रेवती नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
चतुरस्रे वरारोहे दशांशं विधिपूर्वकम् ॥तर्पणं तद्दशांशेन तद्दशांशेन मार्जनम् ॥ १५ ॥
The pit is square, O fair one. The homa (fire offering) is one tenth, by the rules. Tarpana (water offering to the ancestors and gods) is one tenth of that. Marjana (sprinkling) is one tenth of that.
रेवती नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
गां सवत्सां ततो दद्यात्स्वर्णरत्नविभूषिताम् ॥ब्राह्मणान् भोजयेत्पश्चात्कूष्माण्डं प्रददेत्सुधीः ॥ १६ ॥
Then he should give a cow with her calf, decorated with gold and jewels. Afterwards he should feed brahmins. The wise man should give a pumpkin.
रेवती नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
एवं कृते वरारोहे पुत्रो भवति नान्यथा ॥ १७ ॥
When this is done, O fair one, a son is born. It is not otherwise.
Verse 110.15 says the pit is square.
Verse 110.16 says the cow has her calf and is decorated with gold and jewels.