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Karma Vipaka Samhita · Chapter 18
रोहिणी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
This chapter covers Rohini 3rd pada, the third quarter of Rohini. The book tells of Vishnudasa, a devoted farmer on the Gomati river, and his wife.
Classical view, not medical advice.
She gave no alms to a beggar and spoke foul words to him. After death she passes through hell and animal births to a human birth. The remedy is a daily Magha bath, a gold tree on a silver altar and a lakh of Gopala japa.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
रोहिणी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
॥ शिव उवाच ।गोमत्या उत्तरे कूले क्रोशद्वयप्रमाणतः ॥विष्णुदासेति विख्यातो देवीपुत्रो वरानने ॥ १ ॥
Shiva said: On the north bank of the Gomati, about two krosha (a measure of distance) away, lived a man named Vishnudasa. O lovely one, he was known as the son of Devi.
रोहिणी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
शंकरे वै पुरे रम्ये तस्य भार्या च सुन्दरी ॥कर्कशा कुलटा सा वै पतिविद्वेषकारिणी ॥ २ ॥
This was in the lovely town of Shankara. His wife was beautiful. She was harsh and unfaithful, and she hated her husband.
रोहिणी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
शुश्रूषां कुरुते नैव श्वश्रूणां च वरानने ॥स्वधर्मनिरतो नित्यं शिवभक्तिपरायणः ॥ ३ ॥
O lovely one, she never served her mothers-in-law. He was always true to his duty and devoted to Shiva.
रोहिणी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
कृषिं वै सोऽकरोच्चैव विप्राणां चैव सेवकः ॥पित्रोश्च परमो दासः सदा च प्रियभाषणः ॥ ४ ॥
He farmed, and he served the brahmins. He served his parents with great devotion. He always spoke kindly.
रोहिणी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
एतस्मिन्नगरे देवि व्रती कश्चित्समागतः ॥भिक्षार्थमागतो द्वारे तया भिक्षा ददे न च ॥ ५ ॥
O Goddess, a man keeping a vow once came to this town. He came to her door to beg. She gave no alms.
रोहिणी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
अपभ्रंशमवोचत्सा भिक्षुकं प्रति सुन्दरी ॥विष्णुदासो गृहे नासीत्तद्दिने कुत्रचिद्गतः ॥ ६ ॥
That beautiful woman spoke foul words to the beggar. Vishnudasa was not at home that day. He had gone somewhere.
रोहिणी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
एवं बहुगते काले तस्य मृत्युर्बभूव ह ॥भक्तत्वान् मम भो देवि यक्षलोके गतः स वै ॥ ७ ॥
Much time passed, and he died. O Goddess, because he was my devotee, he went to the world of the Yakshas (nature spirits).
रोहिणी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
त्रिंशद्वर्षसहस्राणि यक्षेण सह भोगवान् ॥तस्य भार्या मृता क्रूरा श्वश्रूणां दुःखदायिनी ॥ ८ ॥
For thirty thousand years he enjoyed pleasures with a yaksha (nature spirit). His wife died. She was cruel and gave pain to her mothers-in-law.
रोहिणी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
सा गता नरके घोरे रौरवे नाम्नि भामिनी ॥भुक्त्वा नरकजं दुःखं पुनर्व्याघ्री बभूव ह ॥ ९ ॥
That beautiful woman went to the terrible hell named Raurava. After she suffered the pain of hell, she became a tigress.
रोहिणी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
पुनः शृगाली वै जाता मानुषी च ततोऽभवत् ॥पुनर्विवाहिता सा वै मर्त्यलोके वरानने ॥ १० ॥
Then she was born a jackal. After that she became human. O lovely one, she was married again in the world of mortals.
रोहिणी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
वन्ध्या चैव विशालाक्षि पूर्वजन्मविपाकतः ॥रोगो बहु भवेद्देवि सुखं नैवोपजायते ॥ ११ ॥
O large-eyed one, she is a vandhya (a woman who cannot bear children), from the ripening of her past life. She has much illness, O Goddess. She never gets happiness.
रोहिणी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
तस्याः पुण्यं प्रवक्ष्यामि पूर्वपापप्रणाशनम् ॥स्वपतिं प्रत्यहं माघे स्नापयेदुष्णवारिणा ॥ १२ ॥
I will tell the merit that destroys her old sin. In the month of Magha, let her bathe her husband each day in warm water.
रोहिणी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
श्वश्रूचरणयोः प्रातर्नमस्कुर्यात् प्रयत्नतः ॥अलाबूं नैव खादेत्तु षोडशाब्दप्रमाणतः ॥ १३ ॥
Each morning let her bow at her mother-in-law's feet with care. For sixteen years she must never eat the bottle gourd.
रोहिणी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
माघे नियमतो देवि पतिना सह सुव्रते ॥स्नानं प्रतिदिनं कुर्याद्दीपं दद्याद्यथाविधि ॥ १४ ॥
O woman of good vows, in Magha let her bathe every day by the rule, together with her husband. Let her give a lamp as the rules say.
रोहिणी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
ततः कृत्वा सुवर्णस्य वृक्षं वै द्विपलस्य च ॥रौप्यां दशपलां देवि वेदीं शुभ्रां च कारयेत् ॥ १५ ॥
Then let her have a tree of gold made, weighing two pala (a unit of weight). O Goddess, let her also have a bright silver altar made, weighing ten pala.
रोहिणी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
वृक्षं तस्यां च संस्थाप्य कल्पवृक्षस्वरूपिणम् ॥पूजयित्वा ततो देवं शङ्खचक्रगदाधरम् ॥ १६ ॥
Let her set the tree on the altar, in the form of the wish-granting tree. Then let her worship the god who holds the conch, the discus and the mace.
रोहिणी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
सगणं देवदेवेशं वृषकेतुं वरप्रदम् ॥ततो वै पूजयेद्देवि विधिवच्चारुरूपिणम् ॥ १७ ॥
Then, O Goddess, let her worship by the rules the lovely lord of gods. He has his attendants with him, a bull on his banner, and he gives boons.
रोहिणी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
वस्त्रकाञ्चनकेयूरैः कुण्डलाभ्यां विशेषतः ॥तद्वृक्षं वेदिकायुक्तं तस्मै विप्राय दामयेत् ॥ १८ ॥
She worships with cloth, gold, armlets and, above all, two earrings. Then she has that tree, with its altar, given to that brahmin.
रोहिणी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
अन्यान्विप्रान् वरारोहे भोजयेद्विविधै रसैः ॥पायसैर्मोदकैः शुभ्रैः षट्षष्टिप्रमितान्प्रिये ॥ १९ ॥
O lovely one, let her feed other brahmins with many kinds of tastes. Let her feed sixty-six of them with milk-rice and bright sweet balls.
रोहिणी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
ततो गां कपिलां दद्यात्स्वर्णशृङ्गीं सनूपुराम् ॥सप्तम्यां रवियुक्तायां व्रतं कुर्यान्मम प्रिये ॥ २० ॥
Then let her give a tawny cow, with gold on its horns and anklets on its feet. My dear one, let her keep a vow on a seventh lunar day that falls on a Sunday.
रोहिणी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
गोपालस्य च मन्त्रेण लक्षजाप्यं च कारयेत् ॥हवनं तद्दशांशेन मार्जनं तर्पणं तथा ॥ २१ ॥
Let her have 100,000 japa (repeating a mantra) done with the Gopala mantra (sacred words). The homa (fire offering) is one tenth of that. Then come marjana (sprinkling) and tarpana (water offering to the ancestors and gods).
रोहिणी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
एवं कृते न संदेहो शीघ्रं पुत्रमवाप्नुयात् ॥कन्यका नैव जायन्ते रोगश्चैव निवर्त्तते ॥ २२ ॥
When this is done, there is no doubt. She quickly gets a son. No daughters are born, and the illness goes away.
Verse 18.12 gives a daily warm bath for her husband in Magha. Verses 18.15 to 18.21 add a gold tree on a silver altar, a feast for sixty-six brahmins and Gopala japa.
Verse 18.6 says the wife spoke foul words to a beggar and gave him no alms. The book tells it as a past-life story.