Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 18 · Rohini 3rd Pada
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.
Classical view, not medical advice.
तस्याः पुण्यं प्रवक्ष्यामि पूर्वपापप्रणाशनम् ॥
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.
श्वश्रूचरणयोः प्रातर्नमस्कुर्यात् प्रयत्नतः ॥
Each morning let her bow at her mother-in-law's feet with care. For sixteen years she must never eat the bottle gourd.
माघे नियमतो देवि पतिना सह सुव्रते ॥
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.