Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 111 · A Warrior and a Land Gift
रेवती नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
इह जन्मनि देवेशि मरणं संततेर्ध्रुवम् ॥काकवन्ध्या भवेन्नारी मृतवत्सा पुनः पुनः ॥ १० ॥
In this birth, O Queen of the gods, his children surely die. His wife is a kakavandhya (a woman who has only one child). She is a mritavatsa (one whose children die young) again and again.
Classical view, not medical advice.
शरीरे व्याधिरुत्पन्नो ज्वरश्चैव मुहुर्मुहुः ॥
Illness has arisen in his body, and fever again and again. I will tell the remedy for this. Hear it, O fair-faced Goddess.
गृहवित्तषडंशं तु ब्राह्मणाय प्रकल्पयेत् ॥
He should set apart one sixth of the wealth of his house for a brahmin. He should do 500,000 japa (repeating a mantra). It is the root mantra…
दशांशं कारयेद्देवि हवनं विधिपूर्वकम् ॥
He should have a homa (fire offering) of one tenth done by the rules, O Goddess. In the same way, tarpana (water offering to the ancestors and gods)…