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Karma Vipaka Samhita · Chapter 34
पुष्य नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
This chapter covers Pushya 3rd pada, the third quarter of Pushya. The book tells of a blacksmith in the Middle country who had raised a cow from her calfhood.
Classical view, not medical advice.
The cow sank in the mud, and he heard of it but did not go. After death he and his wife reach Satyaloka for ten lakh years. The remedy is a garden and well by the road, a gift of his weight, 100,000 japa, a homa and a feast.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
पुष्य नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
॥ शिव उवाच ॥मध्यदेशे वरारोहे लोहकारश्च तस्थिवान् ॥गौरेका लोहकारेण बाल्यतः पालिता शिवे ॥ १ ॥
Shiva said: In the Middle country, O fair one, there lived a blacksmith. O Parvati, he had raised a cow from her calfhood.
पुष्य नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
एकस्मिन्दिवसे देवि पङ्के मग्ना च गौर्वरा ॥तच्छ्रुत्वा लोहकारस्तु न गतस्तत्र वै शिवे ॥ २ ॥
One day, O Goddess, the fine cow sank in the mud. The blacksmith heard of it, but he did not go there, O Parvati.
पुष्य नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
मृता रात्रौ तदा देवि पंके वैतरणी च सा ॥बहुघस्त्रात्ततो देवि मरणं तस्य वै गृहे ॥ ३ ॥
That night, O Goddess, the cow died there in the mud, and she became a Vaitarani (the river of hell). After many days, O Goddess, his own death came in his house. (Our text is unclear here: the word for 'after many days' is printed in a damaged form.)
पुष्य नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
तस्य पत्नी सती जाता सत्यलोकं गतौ च तौ ॥दशलक्षमितं वर्षं सत्यलोके च तस्थिवान् ॥ ४ ॥
His wife became a sati (a wife who dies with her husband). The two went to Satyaloka (the world of truth). He stayed in Satyaloka for ten lakh years (a lakh is 100,000).
पुष्य नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
पुनः पुण्यक्षये जाते मर्त्यलोके तदाभवत् ॥मानुषः शुभजन्मा च धनधान्यसमन्वितः ॥ ५ ॥
Then, when his merit ran out, he was born again in the human world. He was well born, rich in wealth and grain.
पुष्य नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
पत्न्या सह वरारोहे ब्राह्मणानां च सेवकः ॥पूर्वजन्मनि देवेशि पंके मग्ना च यत्र गौः ॥ ६ ॥
O fair one, he lived with his wife and served brahmins. In his past birth, O Goddess, a cow had sunk in the mud.
पुष्य नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
न गतस्तत्र भो देवि तस्मात्पुत्रो न जायते ॥कन्या जाता पुरा देवि तस्या मृत्युश्च जायते ॥ ७॥
He did not go there, O Goddess. So no son is born to him. A daughter is born first, O Goddess, and she dies.
पुष्य नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
तदर्थं वाटिकां कूपं पथि मध्ये च कारयेत् ॥कुर्याच्चैव तुलादानं पात्राणि विविधानि च ॥ ८ ॥
For this, he should have a garden and a well made beside a road. He should give tuladana (a gift equal to one's own weight). He should give vessels of many kinds.
पुष्य नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
गोयुग्मं घृतकुंभं च ब्राह्मणाय प्रदापयेत् ॥गायत्रीमन्त्रजाप्यं च लक्षमेकं तु कारयेत् ॥ ९ ॥
He should give a pair of cows and a pot of ghee to a brahmin. He should have one lakh (100,000) japa (repeating a mantra) done. It is of the Gayatri (a sacred Vedic chant) mantra (sacred words).
पुष्य नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
होमं कुर्यात्ततो देवि तिलधान्यादितण्डुलैः ॥ब्राह्मणान्भोजयेदेवि शतसंख्यान्वरानने ॥ १० ॥
Then, O Goddess, he should do homa (fire offering) with sesame, grain, rice and the like. He should feed a hundred brahmins, O fair-faced one.
पुष्य नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
एवं कृत्वा वरारोहे पुत्रो भवति नान्यथा ॥वन्ध्यात्वं नाशमायाति व्याधिनाशो भवेद्ध्रुवम् ॥११॥
When this is done, O fair one, a son is born, not otherwise. Being a vandhya (a woman who cannot bear children) ends, and illness surely ends.
Verse 34.8 gives a garden and a well beside a road and a tuladana. Verses 34.9 and 34.10 add a pair of cows, a pot of ghee, a lakh of Gayatri japa, a homa and a feast for a hundred brahmins.
Verse 34.2 says the blacksmith heard that his cow had sunk in the mud and did not go there. Verse 34.6 repeats it as the cause named in the story.