Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 36 · Ashlesha 1st Pada
आश्लेषा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
तत्र जाता महापीडा नरकान्निःसृतस्ततः ॥सर्पयोनिं स वै यातो गृध्रयोनिस्ततोऽभवत् ॥१२॥
Great pain arose there. Then he came out of hell. He went into a snake's birth, and after that he became a vulture.
Classical view, not medical advice.
मानुषत्वं ततो लब्धं मध्यदेशे वरानने ॥
Then he gained a human birth in the Middle country, fair one. Because of the old sin, O Goddess, no son is born.
शरीरे रोग उत्पन्नो विग्रहस्तु वरानने ॥
Illness arose in his body, and quarrels. I will tell the prayashchitta (remedy for a past wrong), to calm the old sin.
गायत्रीसूर्यमन्त्राभ्यां पञ्चलक्षजपं शिवे ॥
O dear one, he should do five lakh (a lakh is 100,000) japa (repeating a mantra). He uses the Gayatri (a sacred Vedic chant) and the Surya (the Sun…