Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 14 · Krittika 3rd Pada
कृत्तिका नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
पाठयामास वै वेदान् ब्राह्मणेभ्यो वरानने ॥तत्संचितफलाद्देवि महदैश्वर्यमाप्नुयात् ॥ १० ॥
He had taught the Vedas to brahmins, O fair-faced one. From that stored fruit he gets great wealth.
Classical view, not medical advice.
भार्या मृता ततः पुत्रो द्वितीया च विवाहिता ॥
His wife died. Then there was a son, and a second wife was married. His body has many diseases. He has no happiness.
वृद्धे सति वरारोहे पुत्रः शत्रुर्भवेदिति ॥
When he is old, O fair-hipped one, his son becomes his enemy. The woman becomes a mritavatsa (one whose children die young) from the ripening of…
तस्य पुण्यमहं वक्ष्ये यतो रोगो निवर्तते ॥
I will tell the merit-making rite by which the disease goes. A son is born again, O Goddess, and no daughter is born.