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Karma Vipaka Samhita · Chapter 19
रोहिणी नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
This chapter covers Rohini 4th pada, the fourth quarter of Rohini. The book tells of Buddhisharma, a fallen priest of Antarvedi.
Classical view, not medical advice.
He loved to eat other people's food and took gifts again and again. After death he passes through hell and the births of a bull and a donkey. The remedy is 100,000 japa, a homa with sesame, ghee and honey, a feast for seventy-seven brahmins and a bath at Prayaga.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
रोहिणी नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
॥ शिव उवाच ॥रोहिण्याश्चरणं देवि चतुर्थं साम्प्रतं शृणु ॥यत्कृतं संचितं पूर्वमिह जन्मनि तत्फलम् ॥ १ ॥
Shiva said: O Goddess, now hear the fourth charana (quarter of a star) of Rohini. Hear the result in this birth of what was done and stored up before.
रोहिणी नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
बुद्धिशर्मा द्विजः कश्चिदन्तर्वेद्यां बभूव ह ॥पुरोहितो महाभ्रष्टः परपाके सदा रतः ॥ २ ॥
A brahmin named Buddhisharma lived in Antarvedi. He was a priest who had fallen far. He always loved to eat other people's cooked food.
रोहिणी नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
भार्या पररता तस्य चञ्चला चपला सदा ॥धनं च संचितं तेन प्रतिग्रहप्रसङ्गतः ॥ ३ ॥
His wife loved other men. She was always fickle and restless. He gathered wealth by taking gifts again and again.
रोहिणी नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
मरणं तस्य वै जातं पश्चाद्भार्या मृता तु सा ॥गतोऽसौ नरके घोरे पूर्वजन्मविपाकतः ॥ ४ ॥
He died, and then his wife died. By the ripening of his past life, he went to a terrible hell.
रोहिणी नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
युगमेकं वरारोहे भुक्त्वा नरकयातनाम् ॥वृषयोनिं च संप्राप्तो रासभत्वं ततोऽलभत् ॥ ५ ॥
O lovely one, he suffered the pain of hell for one yuga (an age). Then he was born a bull, and after that a donkey.
रोहिणी नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
मानुषत्वं पुनर्याति मध्यदेशे वरानने ॥अपुत्रता भवेद्देवि कन्यका चैव जायते ॥ ६ ॥
O lovely one, he becomes human again, in the Middle Country. He has no son, O Goddess. Daughters are born.
रोहिणी नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
शरीरे रोगमुत्पन्नं सुखं नैव प्रजायते ॥प्रायश्चित्तं ततो देवि प्रवक्ष्यामि वरानने ॥ ७ ॥
Illness arises in his body. He never gets happiness. Then, O lovely one, I will tell the prayashchitta (remedy for a past wrong).
रोहिणी नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
आकृष्णेति जपेन्मन्त्रं लक्षं वै विधिवत्प्रिये ॥होमं कुर्यात्प्रयत्नेन तिलाज्यमधुना सह ॥ ८ ॥
Dear one, let him do 100,000 japa (repeating a mantra) by the rules. The mantra (sacred words) begins Akrishnena. Let him carefully do a homa (fire offering) with sesame, ghee and honey.
रोहिणी नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
कुण्डे वै वर्तुलाकारे दशांशं तर्पणं तथा ॥मार्जनं तु विशेषेण ततो ब्राह्मणभोजनम् ॥ ९ ॥
It is offered in a round fire pit, one tenth of the count. The tarpana (water offering to the ancestors and gods) is done the same way. Above all, marjana (sprinkling) is done. After that he feeds brahmins.
रोहिणी नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
दशवर्णाः प्रदातव्या गुडधेनुस्तथा प्रिये ॥शय्यां दद्यात्प्रयत्नेन विधिवद्ब्राह्मणाय च ॥ १० ॥
Dear one, he must give dashavarna (a gift of ten colours), and a cow made of jaggery. With care, by the rules, he gives a bed to a brahmin.
रोहिणी नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
भोजयेद्ब्राह्मणान् शुद्धान् वेदपाठरतान् प्रिये ॥सप्तसप्ततिसंख्यान् वै दीक्षितान् शुद्धमानसान् ॥ ११
Dear one, let him feed pure brahmins who love reciting the Vedas. They number seventy-seven. They are initiated and have clean minds.
रोहिणी नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
प्रयागे माघमासे वै प्रातःस्नानं सभार्यया ॥एवं कृते न संदेहः पुत्रस्तस्य प्रजायते ॥ १२ ॥
In Prayaga, in the month of Magha, he bathes in the morning with his wife. When this is done, there is no doubt. A son is born to him.
रोहिणी नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
रोगः प्रमुच्यते तस्य वन्ध्यत्वं च प्रणश्यति ॥मृतवत्सा लभेत्पुत्रं कन्यका नैव जायते ॥ १३ ॥
His illness is lifted. His childlessness is destroyed. A mritavatsa (one whose children die young) gets a son. No daughter is born.
Verse 19.8 gives 100,000 japa with the Akrishnena mantra and a homa with sesame, ghee and honey. Verses 19.10 to 19.12 add gifts, a feast for seventy-seven brahmins and a Prayaga bath.
Verse 19.12 says he bathes at Prayaga in the month of Magha, in the morning, with his wife.