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Karma Vipaka Samhita · Chapter 27
आर्द्रा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
This chapter covers Ardra 4th pada, the fourth quarter of Ardra. The book tells of a rich trader near Avanti who gave a thousand cows on the Narmada at an eclipse.
Classical view, not medical advice.
But he held a goldsmith's money and never gave it back. After death he passes through hell and several births. The remedy is 100,000 Gayatri japa and the Harivamsha. It adds gifts of a chariot, horses and a village, a sesame cow and worship of Shiva.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
आर्द्रा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
॥ शिव उवाच ॥अथातः संप्रवक्ष्यामि तृतीयचरणं शिवे ॥कृतं नरेण यद्देवि पूर्वजन्मनि किल्बिषम् ॥ १ ॥
Shiva said: Now I will tell you of the third charana (quarter of a star), O Parvati. Hear the wrong a man did in a past life, O Goddess.
आर्द्रा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
अवन्तीपुरतोऽवात्सीत् शूद्र एको महाधनः ॥विक्रयं क्रियते छागमेषयोर्गृहवासिनोः ॥ २ ॥
A very rich shudra (servant class) lived near the city of Avanti. He sold goats and sheep kept in houses.
आर्द्रा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
गजमश्वं तथा रत्नं वस्त्राणि विविधानि च ॥एकदा सूर्यग्रहणं दृष्टं तेन वरानने ॥ ३ ॥
He also sold elephants, horses, jewels and many kinds of cloth. Once, O fair-faced one, he saw an eclipse of the Sun.
आर्द्रा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
गोसहस्रं कृतं दानं भार्यया सहितेन वै ॥नर्मदायां विशालाक्षि स्वर्णवस्त्रयुतं तथा ॥ ४ ॥
With his wife he gave a thousand cows in gift on the Narmada river, O large-eyed one. He gave gold and cloth with them.
आर्द्रा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
तत्रैव चाभवत् पीडा मृत्युलोकसमुद्भवा ॥स्वर्णकारस्य वै द्रव्यं व्यवहारनिमित्तकम् ॥ ५ ॥
There too, a pain of the mortal world came on him. He held a goldsmith's money from a business dealing.
आर्द्रा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
गृहीतं चैव नो दत्तं ततः शृणु वरानने ॥ततो बहुगते काले शूद्रस्य मरणं ह्यभूत् ॥ ६ ॥
He took it and did not give it back. Hear on, O fair-faced one. After much time the shudra (servant class) died.
आर्द्रा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
ततोऽसौ नरके घोरे वर्षलक्षद्वयं तथा ॥तत्रैव बहुधा पीडां भुक्त्वा चैव स्वकर्मतः ॥ ७ ॥
Then he lived in a terrible hell for two hundred thousand years. There he suffered pain in many ways from his own deeds.
आर्द्रा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
पुनर्जातो मर्त्यलोके काकश्च महिषो बकः ॥मानुषत्वं ततो देवि कुले महति वै शुभे ॥ ८ ॥
Born again in the mortal world, he was a crow, a buffalo and a heron. Then, O Goddess, he became human in a great and good family.
आर्द्रा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
स्वर्णकारस्य द्रव्यं वै गृहीतं पूर्वजन्मनि ॥न दत्तं वै ऋणं देवि पुत्रस्य मरणं ततः ॥ ९ ॥
In the past life he took the goldsmith's money, O Goddess, and did not repay the debt. So his son dies.
आर्द्रा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
युवरूपो यदा जातो व्याधिग्रस्ततनुस्तदा ॥देहार्द्धवातरोगश्च पुत्रस्य मरणं ततः ॥ १० ॥
When he is a young man, his body is struck by illness. He has a wind disease in half of the body, and his son dies.
आर्द्रा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
भार्याद्वयसमायुक्त एका प्रीतिमती भवेत् ॥पूर्वजन्मनि यत्कर्म पुण्यं पापं शरीरतः ॥ ११ ॥
He has two wives, and only one of them is loving to him. The deed of the past life, good or bad, was done through the body.
आर्द्रा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
मर्त्यलोके मनुष्येण भुज्यते नात्र संशयः ॥अथातः संप्रवक्ष्यामि पापनिग्रहहेतवे ॥ १२ ॥
A person in the mortal world feels its fruit, with no doubt. Now I will tell the way to hold back the wrong.
आर्द्रा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
गायत्रीलक्षजाप्येन हरिवंशश्रुतेन च ॥रथाश्ववस्त्रदानेन ग्रामदानेन वै तथा ॥ १३ ॥
Gayatri (a sacred Vedic chant) japa (repeating a mantra) one hundred thousand times. Hearing the Harivamsha (a sacred book about Krishna). The gift of a chariot, horses and cloth. The gift of a village.
आर्द्रा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
तिलधेनुप्रदानेन सर्वपापक्षयो भवेत् ॥स्वर्णमुद्रासहस्रस्य प्रतिमां कारयेद्बुधः ॥ १४ ॥
By the gift of a sesame cow, all wrong is destroyed. The wise one should have an image made of a thousand gold coins.
आर्द्रा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
पूर्वोक्तेन विधानेन पूजयित्वा प्रदापयेत् ॥पार्थिवं पूजयेच्छंभुं तथा गोमयनिर्मितम् ॥ १५ ॥
He should worship it by the rule told before, and then give it away. He should worship Shambhu (Shiva) made of earth, and one made of cow dung.
आर्द्रा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
लक्षत्रयं प्रमाणं च पञ्चगव्येन पूजयेत् ॥पञ्चामृतेन भो देवि गोदुग्धेनैव पूजयेत् ॥ १६ ॥
He should worship three hundred thousand times with the five products of the cow. O Goddess, he should also worship with panchamrita (the five sweet foods) and with cow's milk alone.
आर्द्रा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
तथा च विविधैर्मन्त्रैः षडङ्गैर्वेदसंभवैः ॥मुच्यतेऽर्द्धाङ्गरोगेण नात्र कार्या विचारणा ॥ १७ ॥
He should worship with many mantras (sacred words) from the Veda and with the six limbs. Then he is freed from the half-body disease. Do not doubt this.
आर्द्रा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
वन्ध्यात्वं प्रशमं याति लभेत्पुत्रं न संशयः ॥मृतवत्सा लभेत्पुत्रं चिरंजीविनमुत्तमम् ॥ १८ ॥
The state of a vandhya (a woman who cannot bear children) goes away, and she gets a son, no doubt. A mritavatsa (one whose children die young) gets an excellent, long-lived son.
Verse 27.13 gives 100,000 Gayatri japa, the Harivamsha and gifts of a chariot, horses, cloth and a village. Verses 27.14 to 27.16 add a sesame cow, a gold image and worship of Shiva.
Verses 27.5 and 27.6 say the trader held a goldsmith's money from a business dealing and did not give it back.