Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 21 · Mrigashira 2nd Pada
मृगशिरा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
वृषमेकं प्रदद्यात्तु नीलवर्णं विभूषितम् ॥एवं कृते न संदेहो रोगनाशो भवेद् ध्रुवम् ॥ १० ॥
Let him give one bull, dark blue and decorated. When this is done, there is no doubt. The illness surely goes away.
Classical view, not medical advice.
गायत्रीजातवेदाभ्यां द्विलक्षं जापयेच्छिवे ॥
O auspicious one, let him have 200,000 japa (repeating a mantra) done. The mantras are the Gayatri (a sacred Vedic chant) and the Jatavedas (a name…
तर्पणं मार्जनं देवि ब्राह्मणान् भोजयेत्ततः ॥
O Goddess, then come tarpana (water offering to the ancestors and gods) and marjana (sprinkling). Then let him feed one hundred pure brahmins…
पुत्रस्तु जायते देवि वन्ध्यात्वं च प्रणश्यति ॥ ११ ॥
O Goddess, a son is born. The state of a vandhya (a woman who cannot bear children) is destroyed.