Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 2 · Ashvini and the Four Quarters
अश्विनी नक्षत्र चरण विचारः
कन्यापत्यं भवेद्यस्य वेदनिन्दा कृता तदा ॥कन्याघाती पक्षिघाती तस्य भार्या न जीवति ॥२०॥
One who has only daughters once spoke against the Vedas. One who killed a girl or a bird: his wife does not live.
Classical view, not medical advice.
भ्रातृहा यः पुरा देवि स ज्वरेण प्रपीडितः ॥
One who killed a brother earlier, O Goddess, is tormented by fever. A thief of bells and musical instruments becomes a man with a hand disease.
भगिनीनाशनं देवि कृतं यैः पूर्वजन्मनि ॥
O Goddess, those who killed a sister in a past life are tormented by fever because of that sin.
मित्रद्रोही बालघाती पशुघाती तथैव च ॥
A betrayer of friends, a killer of children, and a killer of animals: from that fruit, O Great Goddess, he is mritavatsa (one whose children die…