Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 30 · Punarvasu 3rd Pada
पुनर्वसु नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
पत्नी तस्य भवेद्वन्ध्या मृतवत्सा सुतायुता ॥कफरोगसमायुक्ता ज्वरेणैव प्रपीडिता ॥ १३ ॥
His wife is a vandhya (a woman who cannot bear children). Or she is a mritavatsa (one whose children die young), or a mother of a daughter. She has a phlegm disease. Fever presses her.
Classical view, not medical advice.
मित्रस्यैव वधः पूर्वं नापितेन यतः कृतः ॥
Because the barber killed a friend before, a great disease arises from the fruit of that deed.
पुत्रोऽपि जायते देवि तस्य मृत्युर्भवेत् किल ॥
A son is born too, O Goddess, but he dies. I will tell the remedy for him. Hear in short, O Goddess.
गायत्रीमूलमन्त्रेण पञ्चलक्षजपो यदा ॥
Five hundred thousand japa (repeating a mantra) is done with the Gayatri (a sacred Vedic chant) root mantra (sacred words). Then the wrong done in…