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Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 22 · Mrigashira 3rd Pada
मृगशिरा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
स्वकर्मनिरतो नित्यं पात्रं कृत्वा दिने दिने ॥एवं सर्वं वयो जातं वृद्धत्वं च ततोऽभवत् ॥ ३ ॥
He was always busy at his own work, making pots day after day. In this way all his youth passed, and then old age came.
Classical view, not medical advice.
वृद्धे जाते तदा देवि दारिद्र्यत्वमजायत ॥
O Goddess, when he was old, poverty came. In a business dealing he took money from a maker of winnowing baskets.
शतसंख्यामितं स्वर्णं व्ययं सर्वं कृतं शिवे ॥
O wife of Shiva, he spent all of it, one hundred pieces of gold. The potter died, and his wife had died before him.
नर्मदायां महादेवि तावुभौ मृत्युमापतुः ॥
O Great Goddess, the two died in the Narmada. By the merit of that holy place, both went to heaven.