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Karma Vipaka Samhita · Chapter 25
आर्द्रा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
This chapter covers Ardra 2nd pada, the second quarter of Ardra. The book tells of a fortunate merchant at the west gate of Avanti.
Classical view, not medical advice.
When poverty came, he took twenty pala of a brahmin's gold to meet his costs. After death he and his wife reach heaven for sixty thousand years. The remedy is a gift of one eighth of the value of his house and wealth, and a gold makara.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
आर्द्रा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
॥ शिव उवाच ॥शृणु देवि वरारोहे नृणां वै पूर्वजन्मनि ॥यत्कृतेन महाघोरे नरके परिपच्यते ॥ १ ॥
Shiva said: Listen, O lovely Goddess. Hear what people did in a past life. For it they are cooked in a terrible hell.
आर्द्रा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
अवन्त्यां पश्चिमे द्वारे वैश्यो वसति भाग्यवान् ॥धनधान्यसमायुक्तः स्वधर्मनिरतः सदा ॥ २ ॥
At the west gate of Avanti lives a fortunate merchant. He is rich in money and grain and always keeps his own duty.
आर्द्रा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
एवमर्द्धं वयो जातं दरिद्रत्वं ततोऽभवत् ॥व्ययार्थं वै ततो देवि विप्रस्वर्णं गृहीतवान् ॥ ३ ॥
Half his life passed in this way, and then poverty came. O Goddess, to meet his costs he took a brahmin's gold.
आर्द्रा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
पलविंशप्रमाणं तद्व्ययं जातं वरानने ॥ततो वैश्यस्य मृत्युर्वै भार्यया सहितस्य वै ॥ ४ ॥
It was twenty pala (a unit of weight), O lovely one, and it was spent. Then the merchant died, together with his wife.
आर्द्रा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
स्वर्गं जातं ततो देवि नर्मदामरणादपि ॥षष्टिवर्षसहस्राणि स्वर्गस्यैव फलं शुभम् ॥ ५ ॥
Then, O Goddess, they went to heaven, also because of dying in the Narmada. For sixty thousand years they had the good fruit of heaven.
आर्द्रा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
भुक्तं बहुविधं देवि भार्यया सहितेन वै ॥ततः पुण्यक्षये जाते पुनर्मर्त्यो बभूव तु ॥ ६ ॥
O Goddess, the husband enjoyed many kinds of joy together with his wife. When their merit ran out, he became a mortal again.
आर्द्रा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
धनधान्यसमायुक्तौ पुत्रकन्याविवर्जितौ ॥रुग्णौ दुर्बलगात्रौ च पूर्वकर्मफलेन तु ॥ ७ ॥
The two are rich in money and grain, but they have no sons or daughters. They are sick and weak in body, from the fruit of their past deeds.
आर्द्रा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
ऋणसम्बन्धतो देवि विप्रः पुत्रोऽभवत्तदा ॥ऋणं यावत्प्रमाणं वै गृहीतं पूर्वजन्मानि ॥ ८ ॥
O Goddess, by the link of debt a brahmin became his son then. He took as much as he had taken in the past life.
आर्द्रा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
तावन्मात्रं गृहीत्वा तु ततो वै मरणं भवेत् ॥पुनः पुत्रो न तस्यैव विंशद्वर्षे गते सति ॥ ९ ॥
Having taken just that much, he dies. Twenty years pass, and again that man has no son.
आर्द्रा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
तस्य दानं शृणुष्वादौ पूर्वपापक्षयो यतः ॥गृहवित्ताष्टमं भागं ब्राह्मणाय समर्पयेत् ॥ १० ॥
Hear first his gift, by which the old sin is destroyed. Let him give one eighth of the value of his house and wealth to a brahmin.
आर्द्रा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
स्वर्णपञ्चपलेनैव पुष्यं च मकराकृतिम् ॥प्रदद्याद्वेदविदुषे पूर्वपापक्षयो भवेत् ॥ ११ ॥
Let him give a pushya shaped like a makara (a crocodile-like sea creature). He gives it to one who knows the Vedas. It is made with five pala (a unit of weight) of gold. The old sin is destroyed.
आर्द्रा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
पुनः पुत्रः प्रसूयेत नात्र कार्या विचारणा ॥ १२ ॥
A son is born again. There is no need for doubt here.
Verse 25.10 gives one eighth of the value of the house and wealth to a brahmin. Verse 25.11 adds a gold pushya shaped like a makara, made with five pala of gold.
Verse 25.3 says the merchant took a brahmin's gold to meet his costs. Verse 25.4 says it was twenty pala and was spent.