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Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 25 · Ardra 2nd Pada
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.
Classical view, not medical advice.
तावन्मात्रं गृहीत्वा तु ततो वै मरणं भवेत् ॥
Having taken just that much, he dies. Twenty years pass, and again that man has no son.
तस्य दानं शृणुष्वादौ पूर्वपापक्षयो यतः ॥
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.
स्वर्णपञ्चपलेनैव पुष्यं च मकराकृतिम् ॥
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…