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Karma Vipaka Samhita · Chapter 12
कृत्तिका नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
This chapter covers Krittika 1st pada, the first quarter of Krittika. The book tells of Ahisharma, a king's son in the town of Gudha who hunted every day.
Classical view, not medical advice.
He killed even a pregnant doe. His wife's good deeds took him to Satyaloka before he was born again. The remedy is Gayatri japa and the Jatavedas mantra, a homa and a gold doe and fawn. It also asks for a tawny cow, the Harivamsha and the Chandi.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
कृत्तिका नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
॥ ईश्वर उवाच ॥कृत्तिकायां वरारोहे प्रथमे चरणे तथा ॥यो जायेत नरो देवि तस्य वक्ष्ये शुभाशुभम् ॥ १ ॥
Ishvara (Shiva) said: O fair-hipped one, I will tell the good and bad of whoever is born in Krittika. This is for its first charana (quarter of a star).
कृत्तिका नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
ईशानेऽपि महादेवि कोसलापुरतोऽनघे ॥राजपुत्रोऽवसत्कश्चिन्नगरे गूढसंज्ञके ॥ २ ॥
In the northeast, O great Goddess, beyond the town of Kosala, O sinless one, there was a town called Gudha. A king's son lived there.
कृत्तिका नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
नामतो अहिशर्मेति तस्य पत्नी कला शुभा ॥धनधान्यसमायुक्तो रूपवान् मन्मथो यथा ॥ ३ ॥
His name was Ahisharma. His wife was the good Kala. He had wealth and grain. He was handsome as the god of love.
कृत्तिका नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
याति चाखेटकं नित्यं मृगीं हत्वा च गार्भिणीम् ॥प्रत्यहं मृगमांसेन पोषयेत्स्वतनुं तथा ॥ ४ ॥
He went hunting every day. He killed even a pregnant doe. Each day he fed his body on deer meat.
कृत्तिका नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
शरीरे वृद्धता जाता दया तस्य न चाभवत् ॥ततो वै मरणाद्देवि सती भार्या ततोऽभवत् ॥ ५ ॥
Old age came to his body. He had no mercy. Then at his death, O Goddess, his wife became a sati (a wife who dies with her husband).
कृत्तिका नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
सत्यलोकं गतस्तेन भार्यायाः सुकृतेन तु ॥भुक्तं कल्पमितं पुण्यं सत्यलोके वरानने ॥ ६ ॥
He went to Satyaloka (the world of truth) through his wife's good deeds. He enjoyed merit for a kalpa (a very long age) in Satyaloka, O fair-faced one.
कृत्तिका नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
पुनः पुण्यक्षये जाते मानुषत्वमुपागतः ॥पत्न्या सह ततो देवि कुले महति पूजिते ॥ ७ ॥
When his merit ran out, he got a human birth again, with his wife. It was in a great and honoured family, O Goddess.
कृत्तिका नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
पूर्वजन्मविपाकेन मृतवत्सत्वमाप्नुयात् ॥मृगीं सगर्भां हतवान् पूर्वजन्मनि सुव्रते ॥ ८ ॥
By the ripening of his past life, he gets the state of a mritavatsa (one whose children die young). In a past life, O faithful one, he killed a pregnant doe.
कृत्तिका नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
तेन कर्मविपाकेन मर्त्यलोके ह्यपुत्रकः ॥तस्य शान्तिं प्रवक्ष्यामि यतः पुत्रः प्रजायते ॥ ९ ॥
By that ripening of deeds he has no son in the mortal world. I will tell the remedy by which a son is born.
कृत्तिका नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
गायत्रीजातवेदाभ्यां लक्षमेकं जपं तथा ॥दशांशहोमः कर्त्तव्यो विप्राणां भोजनं ततः ॥ १० ॥
Do japa (repeating a mantra) 100,000 times with the Gayatri (a sacred Vedic chant). Use the Jatavedas (a name of the fire god) mantra (sacred words) too. Then do a homa (fire offering) of one tenth. Then feed brahmins.
कृत्तिका नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
सौवर्णेन मृगीं कृत्वा मृगबालं तथैव च ॥पूजयित्वा विधानेन कपिलां च ततः प्रिये ॥ ११ ॥
Make a doe and a fawn of gold. Worship them by the rule, dear one. Then worship a tawny cow.
कृत्तिका नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
प्रद्याद्वेदविदुषे ब्राह्मणाय सुतेजसे ॥हरिवंशस्य श्रवणं चण्डीपाठं शिवार्चनम् ॥ १२ ॥
Give it to a learned brahmin who knows the Veda and shines with power. Hear the Harivamsha (a sacred book about Krishna), read the Chandi (the sacred text of the Goddess), and worship Shiva.
कृत्तिका नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
एवं कृत्वा विधानेन शीघ्रं पुत्रः प्रजायते ॥कन्यका न भवेत्तस्य गर्भपातो न जायते ॥ १३ ॥
Doing it by the rule, a son is soon born. No daughter is born to him. No miscarriage happens.
कृत्तिका नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
रोगात्प्रमुच्यते रोगी सर्वकामः प्रजायते ॥ १४ ॥
The sick one is freed from disease, and every wish of his is met.
Verse 12.10 gives Gayatri japa 100,000 times with the Jatavedas mantra, a homa and a feast for brahmins. Verses 12.11 and 12.12 add a gold doe and fawn, a tawny cow and the Harivamsha.
Verse 12.4 names hunting every day and killing even a pregnant doe. It is the book's story of Ahisharma in a past life.